Why Corporations are Failing Now
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No organization can survive a culture where employees are allowed to build power bases that operate counter to the stated goals of the organization.
Anyone who has spent time working in a corporation has heard the phrase,Its just business. They know it because at some time in their career, theyve found themselves counter to the prevailing leadership and have been subject to power base gamesmanship which oftentimes leads to their abrupt dismissal from a company. The dismissal might have been their choice. However, that choice was probably precipitated by their fear of being asked to leave and feeling powerless to overcome their situation.
The reality is that when a company allows good contributors to be forced out just because of their politics, the company loses. It takes all opinions to reach good sound decisions about how to best utilize corporate resources. When good people are forced out, corporate resources are squandered and the potential brain trust is diseased and warped by power hungry control freaks. Unfortunately, this sickness incorporations has spilled out of the board room into everyday life. Honesty is a vice because political power bases move against truth with fallacies that convince masses of people that the sky is green even though we all know that it is blue.
I survive in Corporate America, which is my frame of reference, because I remember the tactics that were brought against me when I first entered the workforce approximately 30 years ago. I survive because I dont have my rose-colored glasses on anymore.The glasses are off and I now understand everyone to be who they really are one comment or action at a time. My hay-seed days are over. Nothing surprises me any more. However, I have not given up hope of finding principle-centered and honest people. They make my day often and give me the strength to go to workeach day.
Common tactics to watch out for are:
Assign work with a publicized due date and put other work in front of it and expect you to meet all deadlines
Give credit and top pay to your supervisor for your work in setting up bottom-line-impacting tools and procedures for the department
Ask you to send out a meeting request for a high profile meeting in hopes that you wont be prepared to lead the meeting when required
Make questionable personal comments to you in front of others when that is not your relationship with the person
Accuse you of being incompetent continuously and tell others you are defensive if you provide the true facts of each situation when it happens
Overload you with work and then put you in front of corporate leadership in hopes that you wont be prepared for the meeting
Convince your direct report(s) to make errors that will be blamed on you as supervisor
Create a project to force you to download your knowledge, accuse you of not sharing when you really are and bring your direct reports into a confidential project meeting to prove that you are not knowledgeable on the work when you really are
Encourage misbehavior toward you by your direct report(s)
Treat you and your department with a double standard in everything e.g. your department makes errors and the other departments make oversights
I was once told by someone who wanted to intimidate me that anyone can be made to look bad in Corporate America no matter how great their skills. At one time in my life, I did believe them. However, time and finding my voice has taught me that this is not true. Ive survived many attempts from the power bases in Corporate America and know that it is really all up to me. Hard work and focus is all it takes to overcome these 10 tactics and others like them. If principle-centered people collectively decide to ban together and stop the power bases in a non-violent way, we can eliminate just business and replace it with a work place of true friends and family. Why dont we try one person-choice-moment at a time? Our future generations depend on it.
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http://blog.humannaturemanifesto.comAbout the Author:
Pamela E. Bailey is the CEO and President of Fading Into Reality Publishing, LLC. She is also an author. Her most recent book, "Human Nature Manifesto" was published on November 30, 2009. It is available at
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