Great Quotes: Humanness at work/home

Humanness is somehow evading the high tech and highly formal workplaces where we see people being treated simply as “resources”.

Tom Peters quotes “Philo of Alexandria” in his blog post “A [More or Less] Christmas [and Management] Thought”:

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.”

Through this quote, Tom delivers a very strong message that compassion towards your people is as important as getting the job done. Someone has rightly said that with technological advances we have reached moon but it is still difficult for us to reach out to a person sitting next to us.

I believe when an individual is genuinely interested in his people, understands them, listens, helps, trusts, invests (time and efforts), people do appreciate that and walk an extra mile to get things done. People then, don’t need to be pushed to do the work. Understanding the “human” aspect is the hardest part – for managers, for individuals and for businesses to reach excellence.

As Tom says: “Compassion and thoughtfulness are always merited—and Christmas is a particularly good time to think on this subject near the center of humanness at work or at home.”

Thanks Tom, for that worthwhile thought.