What does, MISSION FIRST, ME NEXT mean? Not getting into the philosophical underpinnings of the purport of this adovcacy issue, it means that it is every employee's responsibility to put organizational goals first and the individual goals next. Remember, Henry Fayol's 14 principles of management? One of the fourteen principles says, "subordination of individual interest to general interest". How true and prophetic he was.
Most of the times the employees assess do I like it and then do. Some employees are forced to "I should" therefore I do. What is the difference between these two sets of employees. While the first set of employees become HOBBY HORSES the second set of employees become SULKING SAINTS. And both are detrimental to the long-term and larger interests of the organizations. While the hobby horses would drive the companies towards their passtime favorites at the cost of negative returns (most probably) the sulking saints would let the sheens off the companies because they would not be giving their best to the companies. In other words, while hobby horses indulge in "I Like" activities, sulking saints "I should" activities. And as argued earlier, the companies would suffer from these corporate extremeists.Therefore what's the way out? According to me, the best you can do is to convert "I should" into "I Like" so that you start loving what you are supposed to be doing.
How many of you love everything that you do? How many of you love everything that you are asked to do? How many of you love doing what you want to do? How many of you love to hate what you are doing? The answers to these questions decide what and how much the organizations stand to get to from you and me. And you and me are there to let the organizations flourish so that we too can flourish under its ever-expanding umbrella and it is not the otherway around.
Let's make no mistake in interpreting our roles. We are there to serve organizational interests and not our selfish interests. If we cannot let organizations prosper, how would organizations let us prosper?
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