Life is about compromise – that’s the art of getting along. While that concept seems to have been abandoned in politics, in workplaces everywhere it’s alive and well. Where people work together to get things done, to keep production moving, and to meet expectations (customers, colleagues, management, and other stakeholders). Whether things go as planned or must be improvised, it’s a constantly changing choreography where each employee gives and takes happily and fairly, for the greater good. Where no one’s keeping score. Leaders oversee more than supervise this because it’s more process than policy – some may be scripted, but most is intuitive. Those who fight it might be harmed; those who go with the flow get along and ahead. It’s called teamwork and it works because of the training, practice, real-time communications, and reinforcement… it’s what makes work… work. Something you want to get up and go to every day. Loyalty to this is shown by an active willingness to participate. And it’s rewarded with loyalty in return. I’m always amazed that the same people who might not see eye-to-eye outside of work, get along, acting unselfishly and with genuine commitment and concern. Because of the shared objectives related to what they do together there. Make work a place where psychological safety encourages teamwork and loyalty today.
James Oliver Rigney Jr. (1948 – 2007), better known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy.[1]
[1] He is best known as the author of The Wheel of Time series, which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel. The series is among the highest selling book series of all time, with 90 million copies sold.[2] In his earlier career he became one of several writers to produce original Conan the Barbarian novels; his are considered by fans to be some of the best of the non-Robert E. Howard efforts. Robert Jordan was the most well-known of several pen names he used, adopting different monikers for different genres.
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