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Consider the people you work with. |
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Is
each of them competent? Are most competent? Are any
of them competent? Do any of them care about how
competent they are? Do any of them apply extra
effort to improve their skills? When one of them
makes a mistake, does he immediately rectify it,
improve his procedures, and learn from his error?
Does he ever try to teach you about his error in
order to improve your skills? |
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Pause to consider how concerned and involved with
their work some of your co-workers are. |
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Consider those who have little regard for the
caliber of their work. Consider how anxious they are
to leave work each day. Consider how much time they
take for breaks and lunch. Consider how much time
they spend listening to iPods, talking on cell
phones, downloading entertaining and personal
information each day while on company time... while
not performing their task assignments.
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Pause to consider how reliable your co-workers are. |
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Consider who among your co-workers you could be
confident in relying upon in a critically dangerous
situation. |
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Pause to consider various professions and tradesmen
with whom you interact. |
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Consider how many doctors, lawyers, accountants,
managers, and top executives you interact with who are
not able to comprehend the subject and technical
aspects of their work. How many would you trust in
your own business and personal life? |
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Consider how many mechanics, carpenters, plumbers,
electricians, and others do not actually understand
the fundamentals of their work. How many of them
strive to improve their skills? How many would you
trust in your business and personal life? |
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Considering your co-workers, those individuals whom
you know and interact with, how could
you expect government workers to be any more
competent? How might government workers be more
competent? Or, even as competent as your co-workers?
After all, they are entwined within a bureaucracy
where they are insulated from the consequences
of low performance, they often have excess time to
complete task assignments, and they have guaranteed
near-permanent job security. |
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What about you? How much respect for and interest in
your work product do your co-workers have for your skills and
job performance? |
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Perhaps in today's economy with the option to
out-source jobs that cost less and return high
profit, perhaps you should expect no more from
anyone else than the amount of high caliber effort
and quality workmanship that you provide on your
job. |
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Consider the broad range of individuals that you
have been reviewing in your mind as you read this.
Yes, the incompetence, laziness, uncaring,
uninvolved, disregard openly exhibited by your
co-workers is pervasive. |
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And you? |