Loyalty is best rewarding attribute. In personal life too, we reward loyalty and punish disloyalty. “ I Trust you” is bigger word than “I Love you”. Love can fade , trust remains. In organizations, people are spend years to show loyalty. They also get reward. But sometimes, I feel, is it worth? People are sitting in cabins and doing nothing.
Experience has value. Organization can need it anytime. As we move up in hierarchy, more than delivery, loyalty matters. People get rewards based on faces. It has side effect too. Many times people take it as granted. They use old / outdated tools which have no relevance in current date changing scene.
These old folks may be good in cost cutting & low cost production. But new technology needs new thinking. Creativity dies. Ruthless focus on cost may not take you ahead. You have to mix technology, new products and new paths to move ahead. Big risks needed.
At lower level of hierarchy, churning is high. It is difficult to this layer to break higher dense fog of loyalty. Matching intelligence, loyalty and idea is not easy for these people. They simply left to explore new organization. Unfortunately, HR has similar definition everywhere.
As organization grows, system grows, and loyalty grows. The rigidness, one day brings productivity collapse. Organization heads should keep one layer open for new ideas or people with new thinking, disloyal people or disruptive thinking. They may be different but may not be wrong. Keep head open for ideas.
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