Comments on: You are Your Only Competition

By: Char

Char — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:17:09 +0000

i love the turn of phrase “play full”. I am posting a link to your article so that the students who visit my blog can read this.

At uni and college, I am aware that some lecturers and tutors actively encourage students to compete against each other~ at learning! Great to know we have a bunch of 21st century scientists who are not interested in building on the knowledge of others, and who do not know how to “play” in life.

I am way too busy to be noticing who is or isn’t “pulling their weight”; why stand in one spot and whinge when one can paddle further toward the horizon…?

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By: michael cardus

michael cardus — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:24:41 +0000

sadly whining is what management listens too.
whiners seem to get all the attention “the squeaky wheel gets the greace”. Once we start shifting our focus to the champions of our teams will the champions stay and the whiners – either stop whining or leave.
I agree numbers speak well about the organizations goals while often times i have found several managers who lie and keep inaccurate numbers of their people.

By: Phil Gerbyshak

Phil Gerbyshak — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:38:56 +0000

Good idea Gina. One would hope solid data would win out over solid whining.

By: gina

gina — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:13:02 +0000

Personally, I find that the people who express frustration that they are working harder than the next guy are never the people who are the most productive. I’ve started displaying productivity data by person in some areas so that those i-worker-harder-than-him people can see that they really don’t. It’s just their perception.

I like the 3 topics you always discuss at your 1:1’s and I think I’ll give that a try. I have these regular weekly meetings too but I have not found a good way to structure them so that everything gets covered every week. Thanks!