Even if someone has a great attitude, when you have people that are total donkeys in management - they can make even the nicest person turn sour. A person can only take so much of being treated like crap before they live down to expectations.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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Overmod Thoroughly agreed. I was really only meaning something like 'ignorance is not stupidity'. Attitude remains the most important desideratum.
Thoroughly agreed.
I was really only meaning something like 'ignorance is not stupidity'. Attitude remains the most important desideratum.
It's not just attitude, which is relatively malleable. I'm talking personality traits. Specific types are better for different job categories. Having positive attitudes (social interactions) such as decency or respect apply even more strongly to management.
charlie hebdoHaving positive attitudes (social interactions) such as decency or respect apply even more strongly to management.
I was going to make that point in a somewhat different light, but I'm glad you did so first.
Note the discussion of Kelleher's Southwest as an example: values encouraged by an organization can go a long way toward creating correct 'attitude' even if underlying personality traits aren't wholly optimal (as I suspect is the case in many potential hiring situations!)
And the most important place both good 'traits' and positive attitude manifest will be in proper management, which is encouraged by organizational culture. That is true of both disciplinary/corrective and positive aspects of management. (Unfortunate that so often we see petty dictation, the Peter principle and other distortions take its place!)
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