Great insights Tom! It is so depressing that, the genuine essential working staff are being underpaid, thus impacting society in general. You are right, we all witnessed this during COVID 19 days. I prey, commonsense should prevail and society by enlarge shall benefit by taking care such selfless gems.
Thanks for this, Arvind. And yes, I regard this as the most important use of the tools and methods that I'd developed for whole-enterprise architectures - in this case, using an architecture/design approach to the functioning of the enterprise that is our world.
The obvious challenge is that, as with most enterprise-architectures, there is a huge need for change, but unfortunately an even greater 'anti-want' for that change. I remember a colleague talking about a CEO client once who was shown a simple choice: there was a clear option for a change to make the business much more profitable and successful, but it would require him to relinquish some degree of control and allow his staff more freedom to make their own choices. Unfortunately, the pseudo-certainty of 'control over others' was the thing that mattered to him most; the change was not made; and the whole company dies quite soon thereafter. Much the same is happening right now, at a global scale. We each do what we can, yet the reality is that there ain't much time left in which to do those much-needed changes. I'll admit it does get a bit dispiriting at times. Oh well.
A horrific reality in the life of a nurse, who as you rightly mention face many such obstacles to remain at the bedside of someone's loved one for hours on end but are seen as the bottom of the food chain in medical facilities.
Doctors will leave a contact number and depart for the evening whilst the nurse is left to assist the recovering patient.
Who is the essential worker in this scenario, I will leave you to decide. But I know who my money is on.
We're back to the same old problem of perverse-incentives, aren't we? When a society is structured such that actively rewards people for being selfish and self-centred, but also actively penalises or even punishes those who choose to care, then things are likely to be in deep trouble, yet with almost no way to see what's wrong or why it doesn't work. Oh well...
And with the medical aid societies pricing membership for the exclusive use of the top ten percent, it will be the rich who will rely on the very nurse we are discussing, now that is perverse.
We can only live in hope that along the road there will be a change in hart or the future is destined to a very short term affair for most.
This is why I use the term 'paediarchy' - 'rule by, for and on behalf of the most childish'. To a two-year-old, the world exists solely for their own benefit: they cannot comprehend the notion of Other _as_ Other, another person exactly equivalent to them. In a culture that actively rewards people for never growing up beyond two years old, and actively penalises or punishes those who do, the entire culture ultimately a squabbling mess of two-year-olds each demanding not merely 'me-first' but 'Me Only'.
How the heck _do_ we get out of a mess where the children are more grown-up than the supposed 'grown-ups'? That's the real challenge we face right now?
Great insights Tom! It is so depressing that, the genuine essential working staff are being underpaid, thus impacting society in general. You are right, we all witnessed this during COVID 19 days. I prey, commonsense should prevail and society by enlarge shall benefit by taking care such selfless gems.
Thanks for this, Arvind. And yes, I regard this as the most important use of the tools and methods that I'd developed for whole-enterprise architectures - in this case, using an architecture/design approach to the functioning of the enterprise that is our world.
The obvious challenge is that, as with most enterprise-architectures, there is a huge need for change, but unfortunately an even greater 'anti-want' for that change. I remember a colleague talking about a CEO client once who was shown a simple choice: there was a clear option for a change to make the business much more profitable and successful, but it would require him to relinquish some degree of control and allow his staff more freedom to make their own choices. Unfortunately, the pseudo-certainty of 'control over others' was the thing that mattered to him most; the change was not made; and the whole company dies quite soon thereafter. Much the same is happening right now, at a global scale. We each do what we can, yet the reality is that there ain't much time left in which to do those much-needed changes. I'll admit it does get a bit dispiriting at times. Oh well.
A horrific reality in the life of a nurse, who as you rightly mention face many such obstacles to remain at the bedside of someone's loved one for hours on end but are seen as the bottom of the food chain in medical facilities.
Doctors will leave a contact number and depart for the evening whilst the nurse is left to assist the recovering patient.
Who is the essential worker in this scenario, I will leave you to decide. But I know who my money is on.
We're back to the same old problem of perverse-incentives, aren't we? When a society is structured such that actively rewards people for being selfish and self-centred, but also actively penalises or even punishes those who choose to care, then things are likely to be in deep trouble, yet with almost no way to see what's wrong or why it doesn't work. Oh well...
And with the medical aid societies pricing membership for the exclusive use of the top ten percent, it will be the rich who will rely on the very nurse we are discussing, now that is perverse.
We can only live in hope that along the road there will be a change in hart or the future is destined to a very short term affair for most.
This is why I use the term 'paediarchy' - 'rule by, for and on behalf of the most childish'. To a two-year-old, the world exists solely for their own benefit: they cannot comprehend the notion of Other _as_ Other, another person exactly equivalent to them. In a culture that actively rewards people for never growing up beyond two years old, and actively penalises or punishes those who do, the entire culture ultimately a squabbling mess of two-year-olds each demanding not merely 'me-first' but 'Me Only'.
How the heck _do_ we get out of a mess where the children are more grown-up than the supposed 'grown-ups'? That's the real challenge we face right now?