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It is not sensible to hire people who will become rapidly frustrated at the function they are delegated to perform unless you have another position to promote t
by vii 15y ago
It is not sensible to hire people who will become rapidly frustrated at the function they are delegated to perform unless you have another position to promote them into. Often you need someone to perform a dull role.
There are plenty of people, even knowledge workers, who are satisfied with a steady paycheck and a low level of workplace stimulation. Should one force them to improve? If you do, then they often move on (in my experience). That is why the distinction brought up between innovators and knowledge workers is important.
- forkandwait 15y ago"Often you need someone to perform a dull role." If you see your company as a machine in which you and a few select managers are the controllers, and everyone else is, somewhat literally, just a tool. This is the subconcious model that permeates our society, for better or for worse. "There are plenty of people, even knowledge workers, who are satisfied with a steady paycheck and a low level of workplace stimulation." Really? That sounds a lot like somebody in power justifying to themselves why the other people are not in power -- because they are "satisfied" with their lot. This is a very, very old trope, including the whole White Man's Burden thing, etc.