The Power Of Positive BS
When times get tough and funds get scarce, businesses generally expect fewer people to produce more. When the workforce starts to fray around the edges someone in some business school somewhere comes up with a brilliant new plan for employees to transform themselves, increase their productivity, smile a lot and make everything better.
This always accomplishes its main purpose - that would be a publication credit for the Harvard Business Review. It also has the unfortunate side effect of bothering non-union workers throughout the nation with silly personal development exercises.
In one of which Wonks Anonymous was shown the following check list related to his level of spiritual energy:
Maybe if Wonks Anonymous took some vacation days and volunteered at a homeless shelter he would feel better, but not too many PTO days because that would interfere with report production.
Now Wonks Anonymous actually understands that there is a larger purpose for his job. That would be helping a fine organization survive in a environment that challenges it with ridiculous regulation, silly billing practices and a general competitive race to the bottom.
The immediate job, however, consists entirely of doing useless things - monitoring compliance with silly regulations that do no good to God or man - or noxious acts - degrading the quality of the Health Insurance packages that the nameless organization offers and insuring that sick people will pay for their evil ways.
Which, Wonks Anonymous imagines, is the way of most of the business world at this point in time. It must be nice to have a job at a business school.
This always accomplishes its main purpose - that would be a publication credit for the Harvard Business Review. It also has the unfortunate side effect of bothering non-union workers throughout the nation with silly personal development exercises.
In one of which Wonks Anonymous was shown the following check list related to his level of spiritual energy:
- I don't spend enough time at work what I do best and enjoy most.
- There are significant gaps between what I say is most important to me in my life any I actually allocate my time and energy
- My decisions at work are most often influenced by external demands than by a strong clear sense of my own purpose
- I don't invest enough time and energy in making a positive difference to others and to the world.
Maybe if Wonks Anonymous took some vacation days and volunteered at a homeless shelter he would feel better, but not too many PTO days because that would interfere with report production.
Now Wonks Anonymous actually understands that there is a larger purpose for his job. That would be helping a fine organization survive in a environment that challenges it with ridiculous regulation, silly billing practices and a general competitive race to the bottom.
The immediate job, however, consists entirely of doing useless things - monitoring compliance with silly regulations that do no good to God or man - or noxious acts - degrading the quality of the Health Insurance packages that the nameless organization offers and insuring that sick people will pay for their evil ways.
Which, Wonks Anonymous imagines, is the way of most of the business world at this point in time. It must be nice to have a job at a business school.
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