Champions of Mediocrity

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Part of any organisation’s process should be first to instill in their workforce a strong and robust sense of self-worth and then execute the company mantra and get the message instilled as a support to workers’ growing self-esteem.

Without either of the values, mediocrity or worse will prevail.

But first comes the important and difficult objective - getting the workforce to strongly believe they do have value and purpose. Is there anyone out there who thinks that to achieve this across an organisation with a 5000+ workforce will be easy? Or s it easier to instill these important values in a company who has less than 100 staff?

Guess what - if a company can get a single employee to change their perceptions and come round to really believe they have value in their own right and do add value to the business, it’ll be nothing short of a miracle. Why?

The bosses claim it is too darned difficult. It is too much like hard work. It is too expensive. And what the hell, they should be grateful we gave them a job.

Now who can tell me that there is a company out there who champions anything more than mediocrity as the business standard. Oh, you do work for one do you? Well I’d like to hear from you because I have a problem where I work.

None of the executive can be bothered to look at suggestions on how easy it would be to change the company culture wherby we will stop being treated like mindless automatons a’ la Charlie Chaplin’s assembly line worker in his classic movie called Modern Times (1936), and get to be able to show just what we are really capable of. All they need to do is release our champions to do what they do well - lead us to the success we need as people, heads of families and workers for a successful business who believes in us and the value we can offer to the company.

Why do businesses, especially the established company’s wherever they are in the world, continue to champion mediocrity? Don’t they know of anything else? Or are they too scared of greater success? Why do they hide away and peek through the door at the world of opportunity and not sieze the moment to stand out and lead where no other company has gone before?

To be seen as doing something different to the norm probably scares the stock options out of some excutives! Leading the way into the unknown to champion a workforce that derives great pride in their value add to the business and so helps build and provide superior service and superior products, is surely nothing to be scared of?

Champions of Mediocrity