Standard job titles are Lego bricks. Non-standard titles are lumps of clay

By George ILIEV
CorporateNature Metaphor Series, No 116

Standard job titles are like Lego bricks. When a corporate executive launches a new project, this is like embarking on building a Lego castle or Lego spaceship. With the help of HR professionals and recruiters, the executive goes to the labour market to find the Lego pieces needed to complete the project.

Non-standard job titles, on the other hand, are like lumps of clay. They can be moulded into new shapes but the people who hold them cannot immediately fit in "like a square peg into a square hole".

So here is a question for those of you working in a corporate environment: When was the last time you modelled clay?

Lego bricks (Source: Wikipedia)

Swimming vs Splashing: in Water and in Management

A swimmer who makes big splashes in the water is not a good swimmer.

An executive who boasts about their management style is not a competent executive.

The birds that splash the most are pigeons and sparrows. They can't swim at all.

Executives who boast and swagger should brush up on the Dunning Kruger hypothesis. This will help them improve.

Yet, pigeons will never learn to swim.



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