The contemporary workspace is a simple coalition of interests [see photo] as always. However the make-up of these coalitions has changed, is changing, or will change due to the new visible and invisible agendas of influential players. These players may come from workplace-based unions. They may be imported due to new HR recruitment protocols. They may arise organically within your workspace due the change occurring in the environments that shape your enterprise at the community, national, and global levels.
The changing nature of these coalitions means that you and your colleagues must spend more time during each day securing your current or future position. Please be aware that these new coalitions are very different from the traditional hierarchy because status, title, and even reputation can not guarantee one security of tenure in a job or on a team. At any point you can be cancelled even if you are woke and therefore fully on board with diversity-equity-inclusion policies and programs. This means that your greatest asset at work yesterday, today, and tomorrow is your ability to negotiate with the prevailing coalition of interests.
The good news is that you can be an odd ball, deviant, rogue, or otherwise ill-defined member of a coalition and survive. Indeed you can be an outlier to the prevailing culture or sentience group within your enterprise and still thrive. You can do this if you have a narrative that highlights your needs in the context of other coalitions member's wants. To do this successfully you must possess a strong narrative that underlines your use value. Of course if you can not abide by the action of the coalition you will be crushed. Before that happens to you make sure to look around for a coalition of interests inside your current enterprise, or beyond it, that best fits your short-term needs.
If you do not possess a needs-based narrative then you may need some help. If you need some help start here Learning to love Albert: negotiate the narrative not the outcome.
Richard.
The mind of a minimalist is developed on a unique sense of you which, in turn, is based on individual needs not collective wants. For instruction on how to establish your sense of you: go to minimal-you.com and hit the "become a minimalist" button in the banner heading. This will take you to a payment scheme for a 10 day programme that will teach you how to design, enforce, and live with mind filters: these help you to be the best person you can be.
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