If you’re operating within a team or contributing to a situation, you have to speak up. You have to ask questions, even at the risk of sounding stupid, and challenge ideas or practices that don’t seem to be delivering on the objectives. If you feel uncomfortable or unclear, it’s your responsibility to sort it out, not anyone else’s. And it’s not OK to keep quiet and then complain about something afterwards.
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According to research evidence, a high performing behaviour for managers is developing people. It should also of course be one for individuals, a willingness to invest in yourself and your own development. Unfortunately many don’t see it like that. However, to get the best out of people, it pays to attend to their development – and also to bolster confidence. So, encourage and motivate.
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It looks as if the only way to live authentically and with complete integrity in the current environment is only to do things of which you are proud. But the latest events in Norway have shown us that individuals (and groups) can easily lose their ‘moral compass’ and find personal justification in carrying out acts which many of us find repugnant.
Read more »Though not a fan of war, nor necessarily of the war in Iraq, I was shown this speech the other day, and was struck by the underlying courage, dignity and respect for humanity shown by the speaker, Lt. Col. Tim Collins, commander of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish, as he summed up the task for the British forces waiting to remove Saddam Hussein from power in March 2003…
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