We are always taught to be grateful leaders at work. I try to treach my children to be grateful… but when does gratefulness become a bad thing for business?
There are some people in companies that are so grateful to have a job that it means they avoid any entrepreneurship activities. They keep doing the same thing as they are only a worker bee. The lack of empowerment in employees is a large risk in Covid19 where I am seeing so many lose their jobs and many others posting/ saying they are grateful to keep their job. Where will innovation come from if employees feel the need to keep their head down rather than risk shining? Why aren’t more employees entitled to shine at their jobs and feel grateful for the opportunity to innovate?
As a parent, the balance between having grateful children who are very verbal about gratefulness and entitled children at the ages mine are is difficult to achieve. Their smiles show me they are grateful and are happy- we have yet to see the stomping of ‘I must have!’ so I am extremely lucky. Just saying the words ‘children, you must be grateful…’ won’t teach them these principles. Giving them life experience does and mixing with others… I am grateful as a parent to have my children but it doesn’t mean I want anarchy… I want them to shine!
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