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MOMENTS
FOUR
Thinking of large businesses and their propensity to keep ahead of the
game and provide the instant information that can be vital to sustain
their position made me think of the way in which the normal workings of
businesses can slowly erode with time.
For instance on staffing.
One area of contention is that large Companies promote people from within
who are amenable to the boss's ideas so as a result they accumulate a
bunch of industrious people who may not have any imagination or are not
allowed to use it. Sometimes promoted beyond their capabilities they are
kept because they are on the boss's side leading to a business without
new blood which ultimately runs down and is run on momentum and not skill.
Or perhaps the reason why people are kept at the same level is that the
boss would not want someone more capable than him/herself to shine. But
the idea of nodding dogs on any board or committee does not extend peoples'
skills or imaginations , or help any organisation to maintain a future,
the whole can be eroded very quickly into the mundane. Thus the idea of
putting your head above the parapet only to know that it will be constantly
knocked off quickly means that the lack of encouragement and loss of future
delegation is everyone's loss. You can apply this to any organisation.
Is this like yours?
Ann Phillips
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