My mercenary career
I have been doing
office politics for longer than I care to be concerned, it is probably why I
have preferred the role of being a consultant rather than an employee, there is
a sense of independence it entails without having to pander to hierarchies of
management and human resource departments.
Obviously, you still
somehow report to someone within the organisation and it is the organisation’s
decision to either retain or terminate your contract. I would be the first to
concede that I am not your pliant mercenary, supine as to be invertebrate and
given to masochistic tendencies.
Autonomy matters and
where it is non-existent, I would well be on to something else than endure the
situation. Gosh! I have standards and the traditional ones of respect, courtesy, and consideration rank highly in my book.
A nasty trait of
arrogance
Quite recently, I
have run against a cohort of intellectual arrogance that deadens the capacity
for the comprehension of basic facts. They have decided in their fiefdom that
they must retain absolute control that even the most reasonable argument leaves
them unpersuadable. It is a sorry sight to watch.
When engagement for
understanding, cooperation and facilitation simply elicits infantile truculence
you are left with the wise saying of Peter Drucker, the once upon a time
eminent management consultant, “discover where your intellectual arrogance is
causing disabling ignorance and overcome it.”
Not the easiest thing
to do, but it goes a long way to fostering professional and work relationships
if you willing to listen, understand, appreciate and allow. There is always
another perspective to the way you see or do things if you get off your high
horse.
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