Themes, Behaviors and Possibilities
Seven workplace myths operating within the organization, both personally and culturally, keep the organization from realizing its pure and innate potential. Once the fears begin to be dismantled, the organization can engage from a position of strength. This opens the possibility for each individual, using 'me' management, to be responsible and accountable, and for the organization to create long-term financially viabilty, based in shared leadership, ideas that flow from the curiosity continuum & feed perpetual innovation, and the development of a truly sustainable community.
The world is a scary place
Themes: protect & defend, exposure-avoidance, negative world view
Behaviors: controlled processes, micro-managing people, defensiveness, denial, hiding, inflexibility
Possibilities: self-awareness, honesty, truth, openness, engagement, conscious choice, personal responsibility, clarity, workplace evolution
There is not enough
Themes: silos, containment, competition for apparently scarce resources, win-lose
Behaviors: withholding, back-stabbing, survival mentality, pressuring results, perceived lack, limitation, repression, greed Possibilities: collaboration, strategic alliances, playing together, abundant thinking, generosity, sharing, team, transparency
The power is outside of me
Themes: anger, frustration, victim, apathy, risk-aversion
Behaviors: good soldiers, ‘yes’ people, victims, disengaged, blame, brown-nosing, sabotage
Possibilities: personal responsibility & accountability, job contentment, true empowerment, a personal stake in success, self-driven productivity improvement, co-created innovative solutions
We are not enough
Themes: perfectionism, self-doubt, arrogance and judgment (both of self and other)
Behaviors: expectations viewed as unrealistic, performance paralysis and corruption, lack of self-trust, failure to verbalize and concretize new ideas, projecting self-doubt onto others—seeing them as not enough
Possibilities: authenticity, flexibility, self-trust, trust of others, fearless engagement, non-reactive relationships, compassionate & nurturing work environments, organizational and personal unstoppability
There is one right way
Themes: turf wars, creativity killers, change repellents, micro-management, tunnel-vision, short-sightedness
Behaviors: lack of delegation, closed minds, limited creativity, warfare of opinions, emphasis on why things can’t be done, life in the land of ‘should’, individual & organizational paralysis
Possibilities: creativity, emphasis on ‘how’, solution focused, inspired by diversity, visionary & ahead-of-the-curve thinking, organizational flexibility
We know what’s real
Themes: assumptions, limitations, predictability, inability to see possibilities or what’s coming
Behaviors: knowing arrogance, driven by the quantitative, inside our box, unable to see beyond the known, unwillingness to push limits or question
Possibilities: learning, possibility orientation, honoring of the intuitive, beneficial diversity of opinions and ideas, willingness to step into not knowing, naturally expanding comfort zones, growing, hotbed of innovation and creativity, organizational sustainability
We are separate
Themes: me, mine, cynicism, loss of meaning, dispirited
Behaviors: mediocrity, self-focused, disconnected, small thinking, inability to team effectively, stressed, checked-out, resigned Possibilities: aligned purpose, living the mission, in this together, a part of something bigger than oneself, limitless potential, unity, health, personal, professional & organizational transformation
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