Everybody will feel pleasured
and experience a surge of energy when we receive approval for something. Likewise, disapproval can drain the energy
out of us. It will eventually lead to gradual
erosion of enthusiasm and motivation.
Most bosses delude themselves
that their staff love them, or at least respect them. Always comparing themselves with other bosses
who are doing worse. There exists a narrow
dividing line between honest reflection on one’s performance with view to
improve, and self-marking with view to self-approval.
Bosses who approximate most
close to the un-self-examined have shown little sensitivity to their
environment and have no attempt to understand their staff. Self-evaluation is not the same as
self-approval. Bosses have to accept life
without expectation of external approval, and not to seek it or delude that
they have it.
Shared from:
Maurice B. Line (2003),
“Management Musings 14: We all need approval – even bosses”, Library
Management, Vol. 24 Iss: 8 pp. 441-442
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