About people, work & organizations

[mekin]

As promised here:
My observations on people & organizations

They might be skewed towards ideas for creating a good business & a good organization - something I want to achieve sometime soon.
Also, I am in the middle of Maverick - a book that talks of a very different approach to build an organization - a democratic way.. which I am loving

Comments

[code_martial]

I can't comment in great detail on these things because my opinion on these matters is still in formative phase - even after having worked for over five years. Here's my take on the matter:

1. Trust: Somewhat disagree. Non-trusting corporate policies are often incorporated because of a reaction to cases wherein some employees misuse the trust put in them. As long as policies aren't ritualised, it makes sense to have a certain level of 'mistrust' that doesn't interfere much with the general populace of the company but is enough to guard against damage from outliers.

2. Managers: Mostly agree. However, it's nearly impossible to find good managers everywhere so it's on the individual to know how to tackle hostile or counter-productive managers, either by fighting or fleeing.

3. People Commoditisation: Totally agree. It's not the large org-level numbers that scare me, though. These numbers come from adding requirements all the way down from the team level. What really puts me off is commoditisation at team or project level.

4. People work for people: I'd say it depends on people. I don't work for people, I work for the brand. I have a fairly well defined set of expectations from my manager (expectations may change depending on the assignment and person, but they remain well defined). As long as the manager meets those expectations, I don't have issues.