Career - Buggest insecurity

As a wise man said - Career is a decalethon - In your life( if u can call it s0), you would have ten different events / companies - The wise man was right but then believe the term that should have coined its a decalethon against your insecurities and not anything else

Going back to B-school days ( wonder why they call it B-school, it teaches you nothing about business anyways), you thought you had conquered the world - People did mention about the big bad corporate world, the cutthroat competition, the bad bosses( yes thats true), insecure subordinates, changing environment, blah blah blah!

What they didnt mention was the most important ( as per me, u have the right to differ) - i.e yourself - Yes, believe that the toughest opponent in one's one career management is self - our ambitions, our beliefs and most importantly our insecurities - The wise man also said that as a generation we are emotionally insecure - Absolutely accurate - We are insecure about our jobs, our profiles, JGs( Job Grades = The way human beings classify themselves based on how long they have faced insecurity in their career), relative importance in organization, salary( oh yes), relative salary, appraisals, relative also in this case etc etc etc

This insecurity eats us from within - It makes us doubt our own abilities, our competencies, our contributions, our ability to work hard & deliver results - Most dangerously, it breeds cynicism - We start finding faults in other people's work, we find reasons to make ourselves believe that we are the good and it would take a good boss to see that ( By default, ur boss is blind to your abilities). We question people who are doing good in organizations, who are the cynosure of attraction - We critically analyze them to find reasons & more often than not, the reasons are attributed to everything other than their competence - We end up feeling disenchanted by the entire process and let the cynicism build up

I often ask the question - Does it happen only to a select individuals or is it a widespread phenomenon ? Think it afflicts everyone more or less - While we can blame our generation's insecurities for this, the more important point is find a way out to reduce it

From an organization's perspective, its important to have great engagement levels within the company - It sounds like a line from a business book but it really is the most effective tool - Engagement per say achieves nothing but the results from the same are great - It initiates conversation, increases communication, builds trust ( may or may not but atleast things are clearer) - The biggest stimulant to insecurity is lack of positive & candid conversation - The results may not boost the employee's ego but it brings things out in the clear

As organizations become more and more filled with newer people, such complexities would increase - It becomes a bigger challenge for all leaders, senior or junior to ensure that all engage, dialogue with their people to make them feel wanted, less insecure to ensure positive contributions - Such activities build institutions - it makes people focus on delivering excellence and getting rewarded and noticed for it

Ps - The topic buggest is not misspelt - its intentional - biggest + bugging = buggest
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