Story of I & We

Again, it has been a while since a scribbled last time. Lot of thoughts occupy mindscape but somehow could not make an effort. I just wonder how good it would be if a gadget which I could just touch can record the thoughts and ideas and produce a written output. Nevertheless, I will come back from my imaginative world to reality. Last 2-3 months have been very hectic and eventful. I have been keeping busy at work with lot of new and interesting assignments on hand. Somehow this weekend has been totally free after long time, which brought me to the blog again.

This time, I will share an observation from work life. We all work in teams and an effective teamwork is key to success in today’s hectic work environment where you chase one deadline to another and switch from one assignment to other in matter of hours. This is story of “I&We”. I have been appalled and amazed as to how well educated , well experienced industry professionals glibly use “I” in an effort to take credit while giving presentations, updating about the work to senior colleagues and discussing work output with customers without giving any regard to teamwork that behind the output/result. It looks very odd that people at workplace give a damn about the team members who have equally and at times contributed more than them to produce an output. What perturbs me is that people don’t do this because they lack communication skills or have less fluency and control on English because I am referring to MBAs from premier institutes. Such acts are demotivators to contributors and also put them off at work. It creates friction in execution of assignments and more importantly such acts create a negative environment at workplace. But seemingly a small act of weak inter personal skill creates a distress in high performance work environment. But question is why such a thing happens. Here is my take on this:
· There is unending and cutthroat competition among colleagues, there is strong drive among them to be keep stepping up the corporate ladder at any cost.
· Lack of respect and appreciation for peers and their work.
· Schools, Colleges, MBA degrees have failed in some way to teach such people small but very essential etiquettes. These are same guys who are taught to core during their preparations of Group Discussions but they forgot it the days they got admissions.
· B-Schools and corporates have failed in imparting effective soft skill training to their employees.