I was watching a friend
get crushed by his incompetent superior. It seemed inadvertent,
unsuccessful, and painful.
Actually, incompetent was
too strong a word. The superior was overmatched by his environment,
and didn’t take appropriate action. I see that happening
a lot.
Which got me thinking
about loyalty.
There is an internal
efficiency to demonstrating loyalty down the chain. One action is
communicated to all subordinates, behavior improves. Loyalty down is
a force
multiplier.
Loyalty up is for one
person, may be appreciated, often not.
Loyalty down has more
impact.
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Loyalty is something given freely because it was earned in the eyes of the giver.
ReplyDeletePerhaps we should have a separate term - like 'foyalty' to describe hollow loyalty based on fear - the instant the threat is gone, the 'loyalty' evaporates.
Since we're inventing new descriptive terms, another one would be 'cloyalty' to describe the boss's feined respect & 'loyalty' to the staff until not needed or remembered.
Even as kids, before we could see the ramifications of a lack of commitment and fair dealing, we knew we didn't like such actions.
Great post!