The Hamster School Of Management

It can be said that everything you needed to know in life you learnt in kindergarten. "Don't take what is not yours "and "Always tell the truth".

Yet many people do not understand what you might consider to be perfectly clearly basic truths of life that are clearly understood and fully comprehended your four year old. That is to "Tell the truth" and "Not to take what is Not Yours".

These are the simple basics of a happy and secure life. In most cases you learnt them by example- either by a close family member or another very important example in your life.

Many people you will meet in your travels may repeat simple phrases and slogans such as "Those that do not plan - plan to fail" or such truisms as "The job is not done until the tools (or paperwork) is either put away or finished.

Yet the amazing thing is that most of these same people do not comprehend simple truths that you as child learnt. It is amazing that even a hamster seems to know such things intuitively and instinctively.

How can this be? Why is it that apparently intelligent or in many cases non intelligent people cannot grasp these simple and apparent truisms.

The answer comes down to two factors. Firstly the examples these people saw in life whether it was from their home and family environment or other important role models.
It is most important that you set good role models in your parenting skills.

Secondly in life and in many job or power structures a person is promoted not to the station that he or she is best at or most competent but rather to the stage at which his terrible incompetence stops them and their progress up the ladder of life..

Think of it who is it that influenced you to good worthwhile habits in life. What is a family member, an uncle a neighbor? This person may have inadvertently set you on the good path. It is much better to learn from a good role model than have to overcome the mistakes that a poor role model will leave you to overcome

Secondly it should be understood that in life people do not stop at their level of competence. Organizations whether it is at your place of work, your church, school or non profit group tend to promote people until even after trouble begins. Organizational structure is such people are seldom trained for their jobs. They are thrust into a position that they are not trained for and bumble through. To make it worse their role model of choice is their previous poorly or untrained processor... This cycle of life goes on and on infinitum.

Winston Churchill said democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. The same can be said for role models in life. The same parallels can be said about the job site and parenting skills. It is amazing that there are not more homicides in the workplace among staff and management.