Today’s Indexed card is a brilliant one about people in the workplace. It might be a little cynical for my taste, but I’ll offer further commentary below the image.  Check it out:

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Very interesting, right? I’m not sure which one I will be.  Some days I think I am not great with people, that I don’t always know how to respond in challenging situations. And some days (sometimes the same day), I feel like I am not good with ideas either, i.e. that I prefer the concrete to the abstract.  So am I a nightmare? Like most thoughts along these lines, I think three things:

1. Maybe it is a function of my youth and inexperience, and eventually I will learn how to handle people and work with ideas.
2. Maybe it is a particular function of my innate and/or immutable personality, that working with people and/or working with ideas are not my primary strengths.
3. Or maybe I do not really know which, if either, I am stronger in, mostly because of self-reflection blindness, so to speak.

I guess I don’t really know yet, which is part of the fun (and challenge) of just starting one’s career.  But I look forward to learning more about myself.

On a related note, I am working on a review of Theory U for my blog, and one concept it discuss in depth is understanding a leader’s inner place, the source from which the operate (Otto Scharmer calls it “the blind spot” and the previous is his definition).  This is brilliant, and discussed so rarely, I believe.  At least the way Scharmer discusses it, which I am not doing justice in a paragraph, or in the draft form of that future post.

Anyway, I highly recommend thisisindexed.com and someday want to buy the book.  Wishlist, anyone?