For years, big business has waged a war against humanity. It has done everything in its power to rid the workplace of the messiness of human souls. Angry at work? You need a stress management hotline. Disagree with your teammates? You need a conflict resolution workshop. Have an idea that challenges the orthodoxies of the business? You need to learn to be a team player. And so on.
Corporate American today is bland. Its products are bland and its workers are bland. They speak an odd jargon that no human really understands. They have strange rituals such as the meeting to plan for when they will have meetings. They spend lots of time aligning. To what? Nobody is really sure.
Yes, I know there are exceptions. Apple’s products are not bland. So if you’re Apple, congratulations. But if you’re not Apple or another one of the exceptions, take a hard look at your company and ask yourself whether it truly reflects the highest aspirations and capabilities of humanity. Better yet, don’t ask yourself. You’ve been brainwashed already. Get a real person. Someone who doesn’t know what “pushback” is. Who knows that “incentivize” isn’t really a word. Have this person spend 2 days at your company and then ask them for their honest opinion. And then get ready to change.
Because being human is so much better than the alternative. Unless you’re actually a lamppost, a rock or a buoy. When you show up as a human and bring your passions, energies, talents, loves, hates, gut… you can produce brilliance. You will also produce moments of discomfort – for you and everyone else. That’s part of being human. But in your effort to cut that part out of the person, you end up cutting many of the good parts as well.
People are wising up. They’re increasingly resistant to the bill of goods they were sold that they have to turn into work dude when they enter the office. Younger folks are much less likely to buy that bullshit. They don’t quite see the point of pretending to be emotionless cogs. They don’t see the point in not seeing the point. And here’s the rub: you need these people. There aren’t many dinosaurs left and the few that are still living are getting tired of roaming around.
Yup. A revolution is coming. Like all revolutions, this one will sweep away those too arrogant or foolish to prepare.
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