In the Effective Executive, Peter Drucker listed 3 things one should be aware of. One of them is on whether you know what your strengths are.
It's also a common interview question: "What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses?"
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Odds are you are an average driver. You are most probably not a great driver and likely not an above-average driver either, contrary to your popular belief.
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See, for most people, if they were not forced out, they would never quit or leave. Some call this life-time job security. I think this is the death spiral.
As a system is the whole of parts, individualistic implosion from such a spiral will result in a systematic failure in organizations as a whole.
Needless to say, a system needs stressors.
It is in that thought process that I write about the value of termination.
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A thought on designing life's operating system inspired after a conversation I had with my engineering friend from the coaching project I ran.
The stereotype is that engineers tend to be systematic thinkers. Whether the field attracts these folks, or schooling molds such a mindset, or both I do not know.
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