Focusing on Relationships

Dysfunction in the workplace can unravel us. Resentment grows when we feel unappreciated, creativity and initiative are discouraged or suppressed, where advancement is linked to factors other than merit, and where short-term financial benchmarks are valued over long-term vision and purpose.

Thriving partnership, when it can be pulled off, is one of the most fulfilling wonders of humanity: combining complementary talents and skills, cooperating in pursuit of common goals, relinquishing immediate visceral pleasures to attain more enduring rewards, creating a collective enterprise that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Building relationships is a dying art.