REALITY CHECK - How Good Talents Are Wasted

Over the years, I've been observed and witnessed a lots of injustice related to employee's potential in workplace. I've seen a real capable officer was sidelined for a promotion just because his words were not pleasant enough to the Boss's ears. Instead, a sweet-mouth talker and a real ass-kisser got the merit. Even though this talker wasn't a good doer, his opinion certainly a music to the boss's ears.

I can say that, based on my own observation, most of the working culture particularly in my country are shaped that way. It's developed into kind of business plan that good in paper but not in practical. It's full of facts and figures, grafts and tables, and nice graphics design with state of the art technology but the essence remains empty. First impression is important but if it is based upon fabrications, it's doom to fall apart sooner or later. That's why some marriages ed up in divorces.

Organization that is built by this nature, will face their inevitable consequences eventually. Respect if not fear is only exist in the surface. People will talk bad things behind as well as tonnes of good ideas. During monthly review meeting, staffs will speaks only of favorable things in order to please the Boss and to appear good in front of the others. Gradually, the reality is distanced away and nobody would like to talk about it because the Boss doesn't approve. If somebody is bold enough to bring it out, he will be subject to ridicule and topped of Boss's blacklist. Believe me, annual appraisal won't be that encouraging and this once a highly motivated and talented chap slowly burn out. The only solution is to look for a greener pasture.

My example above may be straight forward and slightly exaggerated but that's what actually happened in some organizations. Of course in real life the drama is more complicated but the basis is still the same. What I'm trying to say here is, in order to make a good progress in whatever we do, all we need is to understand that most of the time reality can be really suck, but we have to accept it and a find a way to improve it further. It's take a lots of courage, commitment and persistent effort but of course, it's lot easier to say than done. Still, it is not impossible.....

Just give a thought to the following quote;
' A lot of talents get wasted simply because they speak the truth....'