Let's Name the Winners of the New Paradigm of Work

Last week’s article which was an Open Letter to the Modern Leader elicited a bunch of responses but they were -maybe unsurprisingly- mostly in private. This is both good and bad, let me try and explain.

It’s bad because any debate, discourse or dialogue that is private and is not in the public arena when what it pertains to is one of the stringent topics of culture, state of mental health and the dynamics of the new workplace paradigms, is a loss of opportunity learning-wise. There’s so much still that has been left undiscussed and unclear that any chance we get to elucidate any of these topics, we ought to take.

Furthermore, the real reason these conversations are behind closed doors is fear. Impression Management. Believing that if we take them to the open some type of loss of status will occur. That’s never a good thing. Never. And this we need to address and address fast.

But it’s also good and I’ll tell you why - it’s because most topics around the enterprise and even more so, “leadership” that suggest in any way shape or form that there is an insufficiency going on, typically elicit a strong herd mentality negative response. It’s not undeserved of course, it is utterly proportionate with the amount of injustice and suffering many of us had to put up with in our long and often sad corporate lives and there’s much to accuse, there’s no double about that.

But, as I said over and again in this newsletter - the “us versus them” mentality is one of the biggest hurdles we must overcome.