Thursday, January 13, 2011

Are You Dying or Developing?

Allow me to illustrate your life.








If this is you and your job, you are dying at work.  The yellow arrows pointed inward represent somebody in a no-growth defensive kind of posture.

I’ll tell you what scares me.  It’s when I ask someone how they have changed lately, and they kind of look up and say, “Oh, I’ve changed in a lot of ways – yeah - a lot of growth going on.”  The danger is we get in a rut in our job where we stop growing and a rut is nothing but a coffin with the ends knocked out.

What are some possible signs of someone dying in there job?

  • Utilize Avoidance techniques
  • Blame others when things go wrong
  • Refuse to be specific
  • Refuse to acknowledge problems
  • Resist change
  • Loss of enthusiasm and energy
  • Self pity
  • Expect to Fail

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