Hello Professional HR & Business Veterans,
Please find attached a very alarming and whistle-blowing watchdog self-authored article on office affairs, i.e., "Is Your Simplicity Making You Redundant?"
I would further request you to please seek your editorial reviews.
From India, Mumbai
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539Please find attached a very alarming and whistle-blowing watchdog self-authored article on office affairs, i.e., "Is Your Simplicity Making You Redundant?"
I would further request you to please seek your editorial reviews.
From India, Mumbai
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hats off dilip i have such a case and i am sure from horror stories received from friends of mine the story is being replicated in hundreds of organizations worldwide
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Hi Dilip,
Your article was excellent and it really resonated with my situation wherein my colleague in HR followed a similar approach. I have worked for 23 years and still have another 4 years until I get superannuated. In the meantime, my profile has become redundant despite my loyalty, sincerity, and honesty. I am truly shocked to discover that big corporations behave in this manner.
From India, Hyderabad
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Your article was excellent and it really resonated with my situation wherein my colleague in HR followed a similar approach. I have worked for 23 years and still have another 4 years until I get superannuated. In the meantime, my profile has become redundant despite my loyalty, sincerity, and honesty. I am truly shocked to discover that big corporations behave in this manner.
From India, Hyderabad
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You have to be street smart to survive while still retaining the basic good qualities of life. "You do not stand in front of a tiger and say, 'Leave me alone, I have been a vegetarian all my life.'" One needs to reinvent themselves; otherwise, the "straight trees are cut first."
Amit Lunia
From India, Jaipur
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Very crisp and precise commentary.
When someone puts systems and SOPs at work, others feel that anyone can run the show. The fact is that such individuals are successful because they get time to deal with serious and urgent matters by delegating work to subordinates who have been trained and made capable to handle routine things properly.
Easing them out by thinking that anyone can handle such work is a gross mistake. A plane or a car on autopilot function does not mean the autopilot can replace all manual skills and functions of a trained pilot. The pilot never becomes redundant.
Those managements who understand the importance of both, the pilot and the autopilot, continue to function well by developing personnel. Those who do not face collapse as the 'Control Z' function (undo), so easily available on the computer keyboard, is not available in real-life situations.
Dr. Ulhas Ganu
From India, Mumbai
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When someone puts systems and SOPs at work, others feel that anyone can run the show. The fact is that such individuals are successful because they get time to deal with serious and urgent matters by delegating work to subordinates who have been trained and made capable to handle routine things properly.
Easing them out by thinking that anyone can handle such work is a gross mistake. A plane or a car on autopilot function does not mean the autopilot can replace all manual skills and functions of a trained pilot. The pilot never becomes redundant.
Those managements who understand the importance of both, the pilot and the autopilot, continue to function well by developing personnel. Those who do not face collapse as the 'Control Z' function (undo), so easily available on the computer keyboard, is not available in real-life situations.
Dr. Ulhas Ganu
From India, Mumbai
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Thanks Dilip,
What a timely article...!!!!
This article is a clear confirmation of my judgement on one employee who has just been asked to leave one of the companies where I am director.
He was a "Bull in the China Shop" and his destructive, damaging, unnecessarily aggressive behaviour had had led many good employees to leave this company in the past.
I got on board recently and found that he has been a favourite of another director and all others have been turning a blind eye on his antiques purely because of his "Jack of All Trades" label.
I found that he has been aggressive exactly against the people whom he was competing for promotions or who were smarter than him.
Over an incident that took place in front of two directors of the company, it has been now decided to sack him.
As experienced and observed by me, it is the superiors who make mistakes most. Unless a new recruit is guided down the correct path (at times for your short term personal gains), it is truly a waist and a loss to any company as he/she will be a problem at some point.
“There are no good or bad people – situations & circumstances make them good or bad…!!” Author unknown....
Therefore, the ownership of creating good or bad employees is strongly vested on the shoulders of superiors of an organization.
Had these bad employee been handled, directed and moulded properly, perhaps he could have been a good man in our team even today…!!
Punya
From Sri Lanka, Panadura
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What a timely article...!!!!
This article is a clear confirmation of my judgement on one employee who has just been asked to leave one of the companies where I am director.
He was a "Bull in the China Shop" and his destructive, damaging, unnecessarily aggressive behaviour had had led many good employees to leave this company in the past.
I got on board recently and found that he has been a favourite of another director and all others have been turning a blind eye on his antiques purely because of his "Jack of All Trades" label.
I found that he has been aggressive exactly against the people whom he was competing for promotions or who were smarter than him.
Over an incident that took place in front of two directors of the company, it has been now decided to sack him.
As experienced and observed by me, it is the superiors who make mistakes most. Unless a new recruit is guided down the correct path (at times for your short term personal gains), it is truly a waist and a loss to any company as he/she will be a problem at some point.
“There are no good or bad people – situations & circumstances make them good or bad…!!” Author unknown....
Therefore, the ownership of creating good or bad employees is strongly vested on the shoulders of superiors of an organization.
Had these bad employee been handled, directed and moulded properly, perhaps he could have been a good man in our team even today…!!
Punya
From Sri Lanka, Panadura
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