Office Space - why is that so?
Recently, I wrote about "Office Space". While thinking about the cause for that type of attitude, I realised that we ourselves are responsible for that. It wouldn't go away with time.
As kids, we do homeworks and mini-projects. The main emphasis by teachers and parents is - "Don't share your work with anybody. Do it yourself". Parents also teach the same to their kids. There is no mention of team-work. Nobody has the ability of working with the team, as a team.
That being the case, when they move to college, same thing continues. Once they start their job with the same mentality, there is no way for such people to turn their attitude to a new type. They do the same 'hiding' and 'holding their secrets' to themselves.
In US, I have seen many times, if a team-mate says, "I don't know. Please show me how to go about doing it..", the other person will be more than willing to help. At no point of time this is thought to be giving away the knowledge. Rather, they will help each other by exchanging it. Here, when I asked a guy the same thing, this is what I got back - "oh that one. We also had the same problem. We struggled hard for a week to get it resolved. You too try it out and you will get it". WT*???
When will they improve???
As kids, we do homeworks and mini-projects. The main emphasis by teachers and parents is - "Don't share your work with anybody. Do it yourself". Parents also teach the same to their kids. There is no mention of team-work. Nobody has the ability of working with the team, as a team.
That being the case, when they move to college, same thing continues. Once they start their job with the same mentality, there is no way for such people to turn their attitude to a new type. They do the same 'hiding' and 'holding their secrets' to themselves.
In US, I have seen many times, if a team-mate says, "I don't know. Please show me how to go about doing it..", the other person will be more than willing to help. At no point of time this is thought to be giving away the knowledge. Rather, they will help each other by exchanging it. Here, when I asked a guy the same thing, this is what I got back - "oh that one. We also had the same problem. We struggled hard for a week to get it resolved. You too try it out and you will get it". WT*???
When will they improve???
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