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A self-fulfilling prophesy?

9/3/2020

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In the UK this month we are in the grip of the Corona Virus outbreak that is causing people to apparently stock up on pasta and soap, with supermarket shelves bare of these items. Such ‘panic-buying’ is producing an interesting effect. The over-buying of these items is in fact producing the very effect that many are trying to escape, their lack of availability. However, such people are also likely to use this lack of availability to justify their panic buying in the first place! An interesting piece of circular logic.
 
This behaviour is not uncommon in far more mundane situations. I have worked with many managers who micro-manage staff because they do not believe them capable of doing certain tasks. When these people then fail in a task, they take that as evidence of their lack of ability, to justify why they need micro-managing in the first place. Such managers never examine their own contribution to the issue. If these staff were not micro-managed and were given the opportunity to learn and grow, some may well be capable of far more and would in fact relieve the pressure on said ‘over-worked micro-managing’ manager. Few of us would identify ourselves as this person, but we do often fail to appreciate how our own behaviours contribute to our issues.
 
What would I like to see change in others?
How might my current behaviours and actions contribute to the issues?
How might I test a new way of operating?
 
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