Sunday, February 08, 2009

Breaking the human borders of ego

The border is what we created to limit ourselves. Borders are just the illusions created out of human ego of which their present ability is reachable. To them, it doesn't really matter how big the reachable area is so long they find it comfortable to live with it without concerning for others. Humans call this a “comfort zone".

This is why when someone's ability exceeded other's ability, the later found being offended. But the truth is, it is his/her reachable area that are not being extended and not because of other's ability has been extended in the purpose of offending them. To overcome this problem, one should constantly seek for improvements at the area that they are specializing in. In the process of seeking for improvement, one's border will become unclear and later will be erased because without erasing the border, one's ability cannot be improved by allowing them to move forward without being blocked by their own borders.

Another way of solving this self-restricting problem, for those leaders especially, is to take others' ability as the EXTENSIONS to their own limitations. This is how human beings work together to achieve a common goal of which the goal is unable to be achieved by a single individual (due to the fact that no one in this world can specialize in EVERYTHING). When other's ability is taken as "extension" instead of "an insult or step-over to their ability", this marks the success of the leadership because he/she has successfully diversified the required skill sets in order to achieve common goal.

However, how wise and effective that the skill set diversification process depends on the level of skill sets that each of their people possessed. One should not create his/her own limit to the skill set that he/she is holding. On the other hand, the leaders should not allow limits to be injected to one's specialization as each specialization always has rooms for improvements. Also, one should not change his or others specialization simply because one has reached the limit that being set by himself or others in the first place. Otherwise, even though the area of expertise has been changed, the overall ability for a company to deliver is still the same and never changed. This is because when one's specialization changed, he/she is actually following the limitation that others left behind, as the guidance. In short, humans are setting limit to each other based on their own ego. Keep changing people's specialization is just a process of changing THE AREA OF LIMITATION, which in total, the overall ability for a company to operate in a productive and yet quality way, has not been improved at all.

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