A very common human reaction to problem is to vent. This vent sometimes takes the form of irritated outbursts. This form of outburst is counter productive to the originator itself. Worse yet is having this misdirected at someone who had nothing to do with the original problem. People misdirect these reactions at people/animal/things that they perceive to be weaker/nicer than the original source of the problem. Thereby, such outburst would provide them a less aggressive/reactive/destructive target. The pleasure gained by such outburst is very short lived and could cause embarrassment or remorse later. We have to remember that professional success is directly related to effective relationships. Misdirected reactions could kill relationships. The best ways to avoid misdirected reactions is: (a) isolation and relaxation, (b) unemotional focus on resolution, (c) rejoice momentarily with some other fun activity
Background
Since the days of my management education in graduate school (many many years ago), more so after I had a class on Business Ethics, I started to think about business and personal mangement from a different perspective. While staying focussed on the goals, it is very important to have one very fundamental value as the basis to drive the day to day approach to management. If this fundamental value is the same for personal and professional management, one's life becomes very consistent. This fundamental value in my opinion is positive energy. In a world where it is easy to get sucked into very simple negative habits like "talking behind someone" to very disastrous negative engagements like terrorism, it is important to realize that it is very possible to learn and master the skills to stay positive and reap success. This blog is my small effort to impart these techniques to acquire, sustain and weave in positive approaches into our lives. I will focus more on professional management techniques for the corporate world, however, I will also discuss personal management techniques to break up the monotony.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Avoid misdirected reactions
A very common human reaction to problem is to vent. This vent sometimes takes the form of irritated outbursts. This form of outburst is counter productive to the originator itself. Worse yet is having this misdirected at someone who had nothing to do with the original problem. People misdirect these reactions at people/animal/things that they perceive to be weaker/nicer than the original source of the problem. Thereby, such outburst would provide them a less aggressive/reactive/destructive target. The pleasure gained by such outburst is very short lived and could cause embarrassment or remorse later. We have to remember that professional success is directly related to effective relationships. Misdirected reactions could kill relationships. The best ways to avoid misdirected reactions is: (a) isolation and relaxation, (b) unemotional focus on resolution, (c) rejoice momentarily with some other fun activity
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