{"id":1446,"date":"2013-07-18T01:54:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T06:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2013-06-29T11:11:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T16:11:30","slug":"labeling-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/07\/labeling-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Labeling People"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n

A\u00a0 practice in government was labeling people. It was a lazy but oft-used practice. Happenstance was the main source of labels.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I worked in government 28 years. Managers were often overwhelmed with things to do. Much of the “work” was self-created, but that is another story for another time. Anyways, one result of being overwhelmed was that the managers often labeled people quickly and those labels stuck.<\/p>\n

One way of dividing people, especially engineers, was as either (1) a manager of established projects or (2) a creator of new projects. I was labeled a manager of established projects. It was easy to acquire the label. The basic process was:<\/p>\n

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  1. I was managing an established project.<\/li>\n
  2. A manager walked in.<\/li>\n
  3. The manager noticed me doing a good job at managing an established project.<\/li>\n
  4. I was given the label.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Yes, that is a sophisticated as it got. When you walked in, I was doing X and doing it well. Hence, you labeled me as an X.<\/p>\n

    Part of the fallacy of this process (there are many fallacies in it) is that a person can only be good at one thing. There is no overlap among groups – that simply is not possible.<\/p>\n

    Side Note:<\/strong> Beware of anything regarding people that is simply not possible<\/em>. People tend to break everything that is simply not possible<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    If you walk in a room and see someone do a job and doing it well, do not assume that they are a specialist in that job. It just happened to be what they were doing when you happened to walk in the room. There is no more and no less there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    by Dwayne Phillips A\u00a0 practice in government was labeling people. It was a lazy but oft-used practice. Happenstance was the main source of labels. I worked in government 28 years. Managers were often overwhelmed with things to do. Much of the “work” was self-created, but that is another story for another time. Anyways, one result […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,29,9,6],"tags":[140,151,132,129],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-government","category-management","category-observation","tag-employment","tag-government","tag-management","tag-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}