Here is the next one in this series. The dreamers. This particular brand of people exist in all possible functions within the company. Be it the least functionally critical security guard to the CEO.
They are people with good intentions. Good skills. Amazing prospective and creativity. But alas they also posess the worst trait that could kill themselves as well as the company.
These are the people who in the midst of their everyday functions lose track by entering into a parallel universe much like in the comic books universe where all their dreams and hopes and fantasies play out to the maximum and thereby lose sight of their goals and activities.
It's not only all positive scenarios that they play out like a child's dream to become a superhero but also like a child, the nightmares.
Examples are like below.
A salesperson who has one lead that looks promising and they are doggedly following that losing sight of their otherwise weak pipeline. They amplify the efforts and also the payout that would be achieved with this one lead that they don't realise that if this one lead doesn't close all their efforts is naught not only for this one lead but also their entire pipeline goes bust as it would take them time to rebuild from their fallacy
A designer or an architect (technical or structural or creative) can often get caught in the search for the elusive zenith that they yeah whatever work that they have done or other peers have done because they believe that its not the best. This results in nothing productive ever coming out our in a creative block which they will never come out of.
A programmer or developer (once again technical, functional, structural) be it in any industry who once again dreams of perfection and enhancement that they never ever go for a release. This leads to a project being caught in a development purgatory out of which there is no release
A CEO is a guy who can go either sides. Both positive daydreams or negative daydreams. On the positive side he or she may completely believe in an utopian upside to the company and its projects, blinding themselves to harsh realities that are lurking beneath the surface waiting to submerge the company under irrevocable losses. Or the negative side where he or she gets so cynical and imagines worst case scenarios for the worst case scenarios and never ventures a step outside of the comfort zone one again being left behind by the changing business environ.
This article is not based upon anybody else but me. At some point of time or the other I have personally been the three examples quoted above. How have I overcome this? Who ever said I have. I just wake up a little bit faster than before.
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