To be or not to be Individualistic

People promote individualism and at the same time complain about CEO's salary. How can this be possible when a CEO represents the epitome of individual's success?

Creating competition at the workplace may be a good approach but definitely not the best. I am a firm believer in synergy and I think that a firm or society would be able to generate more wealth or value by promoting a blend of individualistic and collectivistic behavior with a bias towards the latter. An organization tends to benefit more when employees stop seeing each other as threats. and start sharing their knowledge, ideas, expressing true opinions and offering constructive criticism. A lot of energy and effort could be channelized for better causes . Such an environment will help people as well as the system, be it an organization or society, realize their full potentials.

Levels of realization

Its fascinating to think about how our thought process matures as we grow up. Relating to this is our levels of realization.

Level I - First and foremost thing a person realizes is that she has intelligence and she can think too. During this stage the whole world revolves around her and she will be under the illusion that she can out smart others.

Level II - At this level as her horizon increases she sees better people than her and realizes that others have intelligence and they can think too.

Level III - During this stage she realizes that what she or others think really does not matter. This world existed before her and her race and will continue for a long time after them.