Relationships in Business Environment

Most formal of evolutionary relationships are found with colleagues at places of work. Here diplomacy overtakes reality of feelings towards others, because all management Gurus tell us to maintain harmonious relations with colleagues to get maximum out of their performances. All relationships at work are for commercial gains of enterprises for which people work, or for saving one's employment in the organization. This adds commercial angle to all such relationships.

At work, no body wants to displease any other person except for administrative reasons. In most of such pleasings of others, people sacrifice their true feelings or their own real pleasures of speaking truth. It is not conventionally allowed in business environments. Every feeling at a work place is covered with a heavy dose of fake smiles.

So at work, it is like be-fooling others, through hiding your real feelings and intentions, to get maximum benefits from them. Does it make a good business sense or a good human-sense? I think, the answer to first question is YES, and that to second is NO. This indicates that business and humanism are diametrically opposed to each other. Should it be like that? Any body's personal answer is NO to this question. Ask a management Guru, and his answer shall be business is not pure humanism, it is much more than that.

There are people, who can have a dual personality and adjust themselves in both the circumstances. Also, there are persons who remain the same under all circumstances - as their real-selves. And they prove to be misfits in a business environment. It is a bitter reality of the world. For these rare gems of humanity, there is an open sky of creativity where there are no commercial gains but there is a lot of personal satisfaction of creating something. Most of them have to be creative with their half-filled bellies. It becomes their habit, it becomes their craze.

Some creative talents find a way out of this malady. They turn their creativity towards commercialism and earn money as well as name and fame. This is an in-between path of surviving happily with creativity.