Day: April 21, 2009

Most of us inherit most employees at the workplace. We do not raise them in the strict sense that parents raise children. Parents lovingly will potty train their progeny, teach them language skills, pass on core values and give them unconditional love despite the pranks and bad report cards. They will willingly cart them around for soccer matches after school, suffer them through teenage tantrums and beyond. Is it even fair to expect managers to do somewhat similar stuff for their team members? Unlike parents who choose to have kids most managers do not necessarily choose every one they need to manage. They hire some of them, some are inherited and some join teams as a result of the shifting sands of time. So is it fair to expect a similar kind of almost evangelical commitment towards their team members. If they did all that for their team members, would it really matter? Do we all need to live with the natural level of intelligence that we are born with or can this level be influenced by the environment we grow up in. Is it Nature or Nurture? A psychologist had answered a journalist by asking her to choose what impacts the area of a rectangle, the length or the breadth 🙂 (more…)