When I
started my journey in the corporate world, during one of the tele call with a
partner my boss heard me screaming .He called me in his cabin and started
giving me a piece of his mind on how to communicate with partners .Being a greenhorn I did not like the “gyan”and came out his cabin after the customary nodding of affirmative understanding.
After
sometime the entire office reverberated with a loud scream. It was coming from
inside the cabin and peeping into his cabin made us aware that the choicest of
words were meant for the housekeeping boy.
“Sir yeh toh roj
ka hai…khud paper kidhar rakh denge and mere par chillayenge!”Retorted our
Ramu.
“The entire office
celebrated “save paper save environment” day. Before going for a review meeting
the boss had taken a print outs of a two hundred pages PowerPoint presentation!
When I started
on my own learning and development business I facilitated programs on empathetic
listening. The same evening I yelled at home at the drop of hat!
A father
admonished his son if lies at home but he starts his office interaction with a
lie when he was asked the reason for coming late.
Lot of big
training organization will lecture on how compensations play an important role in
motivating employees. While the same training organization would pay zilch to
the trainers which are many a times less than the money paid to the DJ wale
babu of the evening party!
As a nation also
we pay more “respect” to our
teachers than the salary!
A
nation of hypocrites!
How old
is this trait in human history can be understood by the following anecdote...
“In the
garden of Gethsemane, Judas Iscariot went up to Jesus and “kissed him very
tenderly.” This was a customary expression of warm affection. But Judas’
gesture was only a pretense to identify Jesus to those who had come in the night
to arrest him. (Matthew 26:48, 49) Judas was a hypocrite—a person who pretends
to be what he is not, someone who hides his bad motives behind a mask of
sincerity.
Judas is still living inside us.
Not
only in the corporate world but every strata of life we will find has Judas.
Hypocrisy
is historic rather prehistoric!
"We
are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and
judge others" as said by José Emilio Pacheco.
This
hypocrisy is creating cracks in
structures called character.
How do
we avoid being a hypocrite?
How can
we live up to our commitment and remove the mask?
Here are the few things we can practice:
- Practice Integrity
- Avoid judging others
- Improve your moral quotient
- Understand others
- Under promise and over deliver
- Think before committing
- Be detached of personalities and beliefs
What do you say?
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