Egoless Organization

#57: Egoless Organization [Mar 2009]

Collaboration is all about building relationships, communicating, give & take, empathizing, enjoying every moment together, going thru thick & thin with same level of motivation, passion, recognizing and appreciating others, staying emotionally and professionally connected, …

But key to build relationship is to lose ones ego; the most poisonous three letter word.

DNA for Egoless Organization

Work must be fun
No one should be doing the job for the sake of it
Confidence spells success
Change is crucial to business, welcome it willingly
Focus on building great team and sharing ideas
Walking the talk
Self motivated
Remaining inspired
Speed an indispensable ingredient of competitiveness
Respect one another and sink your personal differences
Maintaining ethics
Be thoughtful and responsible to all actions
Accept mistakes, learn from it, and not repeat it
Act with sensitivity
Reinvent, constantly
Learn, continuously
Review and audit everything one does
Nurture and harvest talent

I wonder how we can measure the ego level of the company! Any ideas!!

Some Quotes on EGO:

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls; your ego goes with it.
A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos. [Edward de Bono]

Black & WhiteIn life, a lesson learned in your past that you will never forget completely. When I was in elementary school, I got into a major argument with a boy in my class. I have forgotten what the argument was about, but I have never forgotten the lesson learned that day. I was convinced that "I" was right and "he" was wrong - and he was just as convinced that "I" was wrong and "he" was right.
The teacher decided to teach us a very important lesson. She brought us up to the front of the class and placed him on one side of her desk and me on the other. In the middle of her desk was a large, round object. I could clearly see that it was black. She asked the boy what color the object was. "White," he answered.
I couldn't believe he said the object was white, when it was obviously black! Another argument started between my classmate and me, this time about the color of the object.
The teacher told me to go stand where the boy was standing and told him to come stand where I had been. We changed places, and now she asked me what the color of the object was. I had to answer, "White." It was an object with two differently colored sides, and from his viewpoint it was white. Only from my side was it black. My teacher taught me a very important lesson learned that day: You must stand in the other person's shoes and look at the situation through their eyes in order to truly understand their perspective.