From the course: Working with Difficult People (2017)
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Conquer your own negative thinking
From the course: Working with Difficult People (2017)
Conquer your own negative thinking
- Sometimes at work, you might feel that there's no point. You can't make a significant difference. I was doing a project management course for a large local authority in England once and they were all complaining about how badly run everything was and I was saying, "Yeah, but you can still run your own projects properly, "just in your own area," and one person said, "Chris, there's no point in even trying. "We're just minnows in a sea of poo," and that phrase has always stayed with me. Such a great way to describe the utter futility of it but I think he was wrong. Although my training course was for just 12 people in an organization of 12,000 and although I felt like a little pebble trying to make ripples in a massive ocean, I still think you can make a difference if you start with your own area. You've got to at least be proud of what you do. Most people's reactions to bad management or a dysfunctional culture is to keep plodding on, keep getting paid but to gradually cease to care…
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