Update to this post. Yet another way to look at/think about the three categories of people Rao thinks define corporate life from Erik Dietrich.
Pragmatists are line-level employees who find value in life outside of work, mainly because the hope of any meaningful advancement and enjoyment of their profession has been taken from them.
Idealists believe heartily in the meritocratic company (and organizational superiors) as a benevolent steward of their careers because perspective has been taken from them.
Opportunists refuse to yield hope or perspective and recognize that the only way to win the corporate game is to play by their own rules. In this realization, they give up ethical certainty and human connection – opportunists play a lonely, sad game to get what they get.
I think of them in terms of what the modern corporate structure has done to them:
Broken the losers
Tricked the clueless
And forced the sociopaths into ethical conundrums.
Update to this post. Yet another way to look at/think about the three categories of people Rao thinks define corporate life from Erik Dietrich.