{"id":3595,"date":"2022-11-28T11:18:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T16:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tonybeshara.com\/blog\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2022-11-29T10:37:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:37:59","slug":"importance-of-discipline-at-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonybeshara.com\/blog\/importance-of-discipline-at-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Importance of Discipline at Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve been listening to as well as reading Ryan Holiday’s\u00a0book Discipline is Destiny.\u00a0<\/em>Every employer and every employee in the country should be required to read this book.\u00a0 It has baffled me\u00a0why 4 million people, according to a number of authorities, just plain dropped out of the workforce. Some say it is the result of “long Covid,” some say it’s the result of the government paying people not to work.<\/p>\n

My sense, having been doing what I do since 1973, is that this is been coming for a long time. For many years, the baby boomer generation has been fighting for jobs. Our generation was led by countless leaders who built companies around their own discipline that infected other people. We were the “pig in the Python” for numbers of people in the job market. For 20 to 25 years competition for jobs was great. Every one of us knew that there were at least two people who wanted our job if we quit or got fired. But now 2.3 million of those boomers retired early.<\/p>\n

And as a result, the attitude towards work by the majority of present workers (and I talked to at least 25 or 30 people a day) is just different. Over the years people have gone from an attitude of “we” to an attitude of “me.” Everything from the government reinforcing people not to work to “I want to work from home and that’s all there is to it”, we have lost prior work regimented discipline. I’m asked by more and more candidates, even with 15 and 20 years of experience, “what are the benefits?” “What is the PTO policy?” “How flexible are the hours?” “I have to drive more than 30 minutes, and you expect me to do that?”<\/p>\n

What Holiday’s book does is remind us of all of the discipline that numerous leaders of the world have had. He also reminds us that they were not perfect people. In fact they were hardly perfect at all. He reminds us of the many personal challenges\u00a0they had as well as their many sins. The lessons are abundantly clear.<\/p>\n

Self-Discipline:<\/strong><\/p>\n