Life - you cannot always choose it

Ancient life guidance says "in the beginning, you are given one body - like it or not but it is yours to keep”.

Some modern wisdom says that everyone can do anything, or being the blacksmith of her own life. Nonsense, we all have different possibilities which we cannot choose; like we cannot choose familiy we are born into, or that our surroundings define what we can do. As well as situations may change in any second; car might hit, getting shot etc.

Clayton Christensen told on his book called "How do you measure your life” about how people may not have planned going jail, getting divorced, shot and so forth. Meaning that even when having plans for life, life may have other plans for you.

On my case, on one autumn morning I walked as a healthy person to see the nurse - only to walk back with a diagnosed disease, most likely for life. That was a day - or life - I had not planned for, but now live on. A life sentence sort of. But it is "just” adaptation to situation.

As Kurt Vonnegut said: *"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different."*

Show must go on.

Workplace is not a mechanical toy

Leading people has finally changed, the companies are realizing that they cannot treat employees like they would work in a slave farm, meaning giving orders and tasks but benefitting the collective wit, knowledge, combining those to the higher reason, and gaining success.

Does this sound like your working place? Mine neither. The above description on fits to very rare amount of companies who have realized the way of working which gains success to them. Typically these rare gems have followed values, or are new hight companies. And sometimes even realizing that money comes by keeping employees happy, not doing cost cuttings.

What is in the title of this post then? It is that a workplace is a adaptive, organic system, influenced by persons, personalities, their interactions, diversity and the goal of the work. And that era of control as a method of managing should be thrown out for the window, maybe even the managers doing it.