This one hits the nail on the head for dominant leadership mentality for the past 4 or 5 decades! This is why our policies and procedures are woefully ineffective yet do not change. I hear this same excuse, "we can't retain workers because we don't have enough money to compensate them, or remsim competitve in the market", yet there are multitudes of other reasins that employees work, and chose to keep working at the same entity or position. But this takes actual effort to analyze and problem solve, so-called leaders do not want to open up the problems lurking in their culture, or ineffective work flows. They'd rather just make it about money. Money is not job satisfaction. Work gives us so much, it is fulfilling and purposefull at its best. It is miserable and depleting at its worse. People stay in jobs they enjoy and are good at. People have responsibilities and do not accept a job at a pay rate then decide it isnt enough and leave. It is the environment, the co-workers, the vision, the purpose and function, and culture of their job and workplace that matter. I hope we can foster younger leaders that have this discernment and call BS on this lame mindset. Money is not inherently valuable it is a tool to exchange goods and services. It does nothing else. Focus on the main needs that the work itself provides to the workers, and ask workers directly what is or is not creating job satisfaction. That makes sense. Closed minds do not ask questions, they assume. We need to push out old leaders that operate in this way in order to actually have progress.
Everyone who mistakes correlation for causation ends up dying.
Ha! Yes, William.
And technically we could shorten it to “Everyone ends up dying.”
A great article! This is something everyone has to get down.
A correlation can lead to more insight, but mistaking it for causation leads to misinterpretation and downstream consequences.
This one hits the nail on the head for dominant leadership mentality for the past 4 or 5 decades! This is why our policies and procedures are woefully ineffective yet do not change. I hear this same excuse, "we can't retain workers because we don't have enough money to compensate them, or remsim competitve in the market", yet there are multitudes of other reasins that employees work, and chose to keep working at the same entity or position. But this takes actual effort to analyze and problem solve, so-called leaders do not want to open up the problems lurking in their culture, or ineffective work flows. They'd rather just make it about money. Money is not job satisfaction. Work gives us so much, it is fulfilling and purposefull at its best. It is miserable and depleting at its worse. People stay in jobs they enjoy and are good at. People have responsibilities and do not accept a job at a pay rate then decide it isnt enough and leave. It is the environment, the co-workers, the vision, the purpose and function, and culture of their job and workplace that matter. I hope we can foster younger leaders that have this discernment and call BS on this lame mindset. Money is not inherently valuable it is a tool to exchange goods and services. It does nothing else. Focus on the main needs that the work itself provides to the workers, and ask workers directly what is or is not creating job satisfaction. That makes sense. Closed minds do not ask questions, they assume. We need to push out old leaders that operate in this way in order to actually have progress.