Promote or be Remote!

Negativity is an interesting instrument in the outpouring of the poor souls that feel they can only survive the corporate World through talking someone or group down. I'm not referring to the people who challenge new idea's or who seem to irritate with their constant infusion of cryptic comments. No, I'm thinking of those people who seem to have a need to conduct an undercover attack and thus begin a process of trying to destruct other people bit by bit over time through their caustic observations and their own lack of self esteem.

Bitterly...these conversations about other people are usually...mostly...okay, always, take place when the other person is not present to defend the negative comments about them. Don't you find it annoying when people make judgments on you based on what some other less credible person has deemed to be the truth. And the person who plucks up the courage, or should I say 'lets slip' what is being said, doesn't have the courage to tell you  the source.

This is exactly how a good person can be perceived as incompetent, lazy, not focused, not applying themselves and so on and so forth...not because it is fact, but because less professional people make poor judgments without putting the situation in perspective and like a virus become the source of negative viral networking. I wrote yesterday about Memetic Change and how we influence our colleagues. What I talk about today is Memetic Change in its most disruptive form.

If you only have something negative to say about someone else..then don't. Oh..and don't use that I was asked to comment rubbish. Lets face it, we do have to observe behaviours so that we can improve performance, but don't use that as an excuse to jump in and savage a good person...and we are all good.

The point of this commentary is that it is about CHANGE...personal change. It is a reminder to us all that we cannot create a team ethic if we promote a dysfunctional environment. The best teams are built on a pillar of trust. If I can't trust you to look for the positive in me, talk positive about me and embrace my faults professionally then it is unlikely that you will earn the trust of the people that you work with.  Why? Because they will soon realise that at some point they will be the subject of your negative attention and who knows what you will be saying about them. The trust has evaporated and so too with it a true and lasting relationship.

Change it now because it is a caustic habit that is filtering into those spaces in your life that eventually make their way to your heart and mind. Before you know it your life has become a spontaneous series of people bashing to defend your unstable existence. 


So 'Promote' people or expect to be 'Remote' from people. CHANGE!