"I may not be better than other people but at least I'm different."
Jean Jacques Rousseau
18th century Swiss political philosopher
We focus a lot on experience and iconic indications of education in business, without saying much about the value of our differences.
What if we all were top 10% in our Harvard MBA class?
If we were, how would we set ourselves apart from each other?
If we were, how would we set ourselves apart from each other?
this makes me think how much my company (google) encourages its employees to be individuals while at the same time appear "googleized".
ReplyDeleteYears ago my company was beginning to do a lot of business with Microsoft. This was at a point in time when business suits were still very common although not at MS.
ReplyDeleteMy MS contact told me that while they loved our work, they didn't like us wearing suits and ties when we were with them. "Please dress casual as we do. We are individuals not corporate robots." was the order/request.
We did but it has always struck me as absurd that a company who seemingly prided themselves on their individuality, would insist on regimenting how they and outsiders would dress when around them, even more so when their dress code was supposedly "casual".
Someone once asked me, "Then why did you dress as they asked you to?" My reply was and still is, because to do otherwise would have meant I was acting as ridgedly as they were, insisting on our right to dress at we wanted to. Afterall we were only talking about clothes.
Oh yeah, that and the fact that they were paying us a crap load of money.