Value of courtesy
I am a firm believer of basic courtesy extension.Knowledge,skill,work ethic,integrity,ambition all are important for a good career but I think courtesy tops the chart for me, Those savvy business minded people can read it diplomacy.
More often than not, I have coached executives to be quiet at Board meetings. Meeting manners demand that. Its more important to know what not to speak than what to speak. Equally necessary to be quiet than to be vocal at wrong times.
Please do not think that my advice is bend on your knees and say “yes Boss”. but to be sure to calculate how much and when.Its a known fact that generation wise we are getting ruder. Our basic sensitivity to other fellow human being resembles size of caterpillar’s eyeball. We are under stress to win ( god knows what and who), and for that hallucinated victory,we have dumped all pleasures of winning a smile after a thank you from a stranger.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:09 am
“you dont need to mumble when you are humble – surely have noticed in people like Ratan Tata and Aditya Birla ( of course only on media )
November 11th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Waiting for the day when we will be able to afford your services in manners and etiquette
. Its not just about money I am talking here. No seriously. It means we will have to become big and respectable enough so that we can justify and value services of a person same as your stature.
November 13th, 2009 at 2:51 am
Definately i agree with you, day by day people are getting more rude, short tempered & unthoughtful. We actually need to be polite & humble. It surely works good.
This days i have noticed people getting irritated at small little things, whether its a traffic jam or a long que or atm machine not working, etc etc.
But i have also seen people who say sorry with a smile after they met in an acident in traffic, they would depart smiling instead fighting.
March 26th, 2011 at 2:48 am
i differ to agree. the reasons of agression have no doubtedly increased, but the basic courtesy is still there. not saying just from personal example, but from experience too !
its just that the expression of courtesy varies from culture to culture too.. we simply cannot discard this fact , specially with us Indians.!