I know the next one was supposed to be more about the First law....
Posted on 2008-Aug-9 at 03:58
But I just had to get something off my chest.
Has business swung too far into the Emotional Intelligence pool without really understanding or training their folks how to actually mentor, review and assist folks who still have basic playground problems.
Reason I ask, is one of the things I just finished watching on the Discovery is Cruelty in Children, and thought to myself - It doesn't stop at the playground.
Yet, businesses now promote the 'EQ' as a means of success. Yet, most companies still do not train, teach, or mentor their employees in getting out of the playground way of reviewing and viewing others.
I understand that to succeed today takes a lot more than skills within the expertise you possess. But I don't see a lot to actually change the dynamics
For example how many software developers have learned how to gracefully accept they create bugs and its just a fact. Not a judgment of their talent. Or that people will find problems because software these days is the express checkout in fast and the furious.
How QA engineers (I so love the we must have tact and diplomacy as a skill) have learned how to become more than harbingers of doom and gloom (I kid you not I have heard - 'STOP REPORTING SO MANY BUGS' - a few too many time, mind you sometimes in jest, but sometimes I wonder) Or worse in one of my cases, considered to possess a "can't do" because I was willing to do my job and found so many holes in a product design.
Or managers that don't have the time these days to actually create helpful guides and training material that helps teach people how to collaborate together, share ideas, express views without division.
There still are cliques at work. There still are micro playgrounds at work. There still is the odd kid out who seems to be picked last.
There still are teachers' pets. ......
So many new companies put so much onto the 'It is all about the people' yet they are pushing the bottom line as their driver for success.
Relationships don't make software.
Has business swung too far into the Emotional Intelligence pool without really understanding or training their folks how to actually mentor, review and assist folks who still have basic playground problems.
Reason I ask, is one of the things I just finished watching on the Discovery is Cruelty in Children, and thought to myself - It doesn't stop at the playground.
Yet, businesses now promote the 'EQ' as a means of success. Yet, most companies still do not train, teach, or mentor their employees in getting out of the playground way of reviewing and viewing others.
I understand that to succeed today takes a lot more than skills within the expertise you possess. But I don't see a lot to actually change the dynamics
For example how many software developers have learned how to gracefully accept they create bugs and its just a fact. Not a judgment of their talent. Or that people will find problems because software these days is the express checkout in fast and the furious.
How QA engineers (I so love the we must have tact and diplomacy as a skill) have learned how to become more than harbingers of doom and gloom (I kid you not I have heard - 'STOP REPORTING SO MANY BUGS' - a few too many time, mind you sometimes in jest, but sometimes I wonder) Or worse in one of my cases, considered to possess a "can't do" because I was willing to do my job and found so many holes in a product design.
Or managers that don't have the time these days to actually create helpful guides and training material that helps teach people how to collaborate together, share ideas, express views without division.
There still are cliques at work. There still are micro playgrounds at work. There still is the odd kid out who seems to be picked last.
There still are teachers' pets. ......
So many new companies put so much onto the 'It is all about the people' yet they are pushing the bottom line as their driver for success.
Relationships don't make software.
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