What's Love Got To Do With It? - Tina Turner
What does love have to do with work? People. “Love thy neighbor” means treating your employees as you would like to be treated. It’s hard to do, believe me, I understand. Strangely enough, it turns out:
1) we don’t know how WE want to be treated until we are mistreated;
2) it takes a lot of time and energy to think of others;
3) the speed of work life is often faster than we can keep up with optimally;
4) and of course, the clincher…we are riddled with blind spots that keep us from doing what we could do better for others because we don’t know how, when, and where we have become part of the organizational dysfunction.
This is why “people issues” are so often assumed away—blechh, too messy and too personal. Even if we had time for this “crap”, why would we ever choose to go there?
And this is how the organizational wild™ was formed. But someone has to tame it; and there are good people out there trying, but they need your help. It is dangerous terrain, I know. But what if you had a guide on this emotional adventure, a Sherpa of sorts? I’d like you to meet The Elephant Hunter, the protagonist of my upcoming book series. Here to take you on adventures through the organizational underbelly and reveal secrets to the human side of change.