Thursday, May 27, 2010

Life & Organizations

It gives immense satisfaction to do something for yourself. When this something you do for your good is also your favorite thing to do in life, things get so demystified. Then we slowly start getting better, improving our work everyday, striving to achieve perfection. The difference lies in loving the work, just as play or rest is enjoyed, just like how a book or a movie is relished. If work be like a hobby, then the world will be a quiet retreat and not some drab shitty noisy city. Every other kind of work is just a trade off for an easy life. There is no human component in things we do at work. We regularly double cross, gossip, quarrel and destruct each other in the name of our management theories. Why were Porter or Drucker ever born or elevated to their exaltedness? They have caused this systematic vanquishing of human values. Manipulating leaders, selfish employees, untrusting organizations, control (manipulation) mechanisms, transactional rewards. Throw out human values, morals and intentions, and we have the perfect professional organization. All management theory is based on theory X. people don’t want to work and they have to be made to work. For God’s sake, the problem is that so many people think their job sucks.

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