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Younos Aboulnaga - My Blog
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An extremily pessimistic view about Superior/Subordinate relation
About this commitment: Learning about my rights as a worker


When I see the rush of everyday's urban life, and how people don't get to stop and enjoy anything.. I see slavery. Everybody in today's world is a slave! Who's the master? It's up to everybody to create his own master, be it self fulfillment, or exaggerated leisure in the long awaited vacation, or his/her spouse, or anything.. it's the only free choice! You say, it can't be like that, most people won't let it be like that.. I say, that's the role of people management.. to never let you take a moment and think.. to squeeze the last drop of life out of you everyday and let you run on the reserve to go to the gym, spend a couple of hours with your family, or do whatever you do to flourish life in yourself. Yes, that's mean.. but didn't you ever wonder why the shift from worker to manager; from more work to less work, is accompanied by a huge increase in salary and benefits.. because these are what would sooth a nagging Conscience (if there is one) of a manager when he does to his fellow humans what he has hated when it was done to him.

That's not only in the corporate world.. I am as Capitalist as Islam (my belief) would allow me. But that's just human nature. People believe that this is the way things are done, and as long as the total human output is maximized then we should be proud, and we shouldn't regret the lost lives of individuals.. no they didn't die (they might have died as well, no problem), but they just didn't live. Isn't that what a superior thinks when he destroys his inferiors' lives just as his life was destroyed? He doesn't even notice that his life has been destroyed.. he thought like that when he was young (alive) and inexperienced (not-blindfolded) but now that he has achieved being a superior it is all clear to him that this is the only way things are done.

Last but not least, a point of diplomacy. If you are a manger don't worry, I am not talking about you.. I am talking about officers of the army. If you are an officer of the army.. I am talking about police officers. If you are a police officer... I am talking about the managers. Etc, etc, etc. That is to say, don't take it personally. This is just my point of view.. my justification of why I don't ever want to be a manager.

January 30, 2010 | 3:54 PM Comments  2 comments

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JohnBeutler John Beutler
February 11, 2010 | 2:38 PM
Manager vs. Leader
I can see your point-of-view, and as jaded as it is...the bigger problem is that we don't cultivate leaders. The relationship that you describe: superior/subordinate, could actually be replaced by leader/follower. However, that relationship has an element of desire, e.g. I DESIRE to follow a certain person. Unfortunately, "managers" don't want to inspire or instill desire to follow them, they simply want to command, rule...and manage. Leadership is more that management and it's harder to become an effective leader than an effective manager. An effective manager can get desired results in spite of themselves, whereas if that manager was an effective leader as well...their results would be magnitudes of order greater not only in quantifiable results, but in non-quantifiable results such as loyalty, morale, and respect.
Jessica1 Jessica
February 24, 2010 | 9:27 AM
Manager vs Leader
that's why we need a radical change to the way we think about...
"let each be placed according to his capacity and rewarded according to his work.."
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