There is a scene in the movie ‘Up in the Air’ where an executive would be creating a business process workflow to fire an employee. The intension of creating it was that any dumb person can get to do that just by following the workflow. Funny it may be, but that is how life and businesses run today and everyone wants to stick to it.
In work it is more evident. The previous generations understood the way businesses are run better than we do coz they had opportunities to work out different strategies to get things done. But however the current generation is tied up to workflows defined by the earlier generations which they deemed fit for the time they were initially introduced. Still most practices are still being followed though the mind doesn’t admit the reason it should be followed in current times. There practices are those where still scientific proofs are yet to be established. Reward management for example is one area where many companies are reluctant to change. Many things happen the way they happen just because it had happened the same way before.
So it is in life. From the day a child is born till he grows up to 25 it is most influenced by a definitive workflow. It is difficult for me to explain what i mean but some thought can make one understand. Like going to school, joining college, getting a job, getting married, having children etc… Though it is quite true that following an established progress path in a definitive timeline can help one limit risks of failure, the problem I see is that a person who thinks to break the custom and follow his path is often seen as a route to failure to such an extent that the whole society forces him to failure. This approach I feel is inhibiting creativity in humans and doesn’t differentiate us from monkeys.
Time to ‘THINK’
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