Thursday, 28 April 2011

Of Working With People

It has really been a long time since my last blog post. When I initially came out with this blog, I thought of 'updating the blog every day noting down what i have learned or realized during the day. Then the busyness of life began to creep in and i end up being in hiatus for some time. I think i should blog on a weekly basis and to stick to weekend for blog post starting from the next blog onwards.

Anyhow over the past one month, things had not been very smooth-sailing. In my attempt to introduce some drastic measure , i ended up offending some people and encounter great opposition. For me, if a long term problem can be solved through drastic measure, so be it. But I learned that not everyone will see things from your perspective. What is worst is the very people who doesn't see things from your perspective happen to be your superior with authority over you. Though i think i was able to lay out good justification, but things still didn't seem to moving in the direction i desired. All these drained me emotionally and mentally and needless to say, i remove myself from the committee and there i felt the feeling of liberation. This is after serving for 2 years in the culture that is deeply rooted in the tidak-apa attitude and severe lack of commitment and no effective leadership and job delegation as well as line of accountability. Anyhow, i don't wish to go deeper as too much unpleasant detail recalled is bad for the soul. Whatever shared above is sufficient for me to write the next part of the blog

The one thing that i learned is that while employers, boss , leaders of organization may choose you, we should also do vice-versa. It is very difficult to work with people who are either ineffective or incompetent and complicates matters in hand. This is one profound lesson that i have learned and i will never forget. If ever i get to choose which organiztion to work with after many years of working experience, i will choose company that promote the culture of excellence and high level of competency and effective leadership as it suits my personality and nature better rather than solely based on monetary reward. There isn't nothing left to say pertaining this matter so i shall  end here.