Thursday, March 17, 2011
Are you a struck follower?
I believe that many people are followers who do what they are suppose to but always put in our own way of thinking. I know whenever I do a job for the most part if I feel like I know of a way to so it better then I will try to implement my way. If it doesn't work the way I think it should then I will do it the way that I was told to, it may take a little more time, but it is beat to me to try to do something the way that will work best. So instead of being a follower that does the same thing as every other person, I like to be a little different. But is being different the thing that is holding me back in life? Should everyone conform to being just a follower? Would this make us a little more like robots that never improved on anything and we would all be living like cavemen? Someone has to take a chance and step out of that line, is it going to be you?
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I like that you bring up the fact that you don't always like to be the follower, that you like to be a little different. This reminded me of something that my mom always told me as a child, that if we were all the same, and did all the same things, life would be really boring. I do not think that being different is going to hold you back in life, I think, that if anything, it will get you further. There has to be someone that thinks of a new way of doing something, or there would not continue to be new things in society, for example, look at how cell phones have evolved. If someone had not thought differently, would we still have the huge things that looked like house phones from the 1990's?
ReplyDeleteWe are, through nurture, inclined to be followers of directions laid in front of us. I like that you said that you are a follower, though put your own little twist on the work that would improve the way things are done. As we said in class there are many people who have taken this tactic, such as Michael Dell, and implemented their own way of doing things that improve the way those things are done. I believe it is safe to say that by doing this you're putting yourself in a better position to be a leader than a follower, even if the position or title you have in the organization doesn't reflect it.
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