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Ducks in a Row: Sitting on Your Dignity

by Miki Saxon

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anniewong/42906556/A few years ago I share how a manager turned his organization around by learning to laugh at himself.

Is laughing at oneself becoming a lost art?

Has ideology—management, political, religious—become so entrenched that people are losing their perspective?

99+% of the time you will be better served by sitting on your dignity than by standing on it.

Why?

Because you will learn far more sitting; people will talk to you for the simple reason of believing they will be heard.

Moreover, you will not come off as a pompous ass to your team, which, in the long run, will mean more creativity, higher productivity and less turnover providing you with better reviews, improved compensation, more opportunities, an enhanced career path and a happier life.

So go ahead; sit already.

Flickr image credit: headexplodie

2 Responses to “Ducks in a Row: Sitting on Your Dignity”
  1. MAPping Company Success Says:

    […] used to be called “standing on your dignity;” I’ve written about getting off it before, but these days it seems there are more people standing on […]

  2. MAPping Company Success Says:

    […] how empowering interaction with an authority figure can be when that person gets off their dignity and doesn’t need to vest their own ego in the […]

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