9 July 2015
At the day job, we have some coaching in time and stress management. I ask the coach what I should do about my exploding inbox. He tells us he knows someone whose approach to this is simply to delete everything. This has its attractions. But I suspect you would only get away with it for so long. After that, people would assume you’d been fired. No, wait, that might be a Good Thing anyway… We also have some coaching in conflict management, by which I mean conflict with other human beings and not with your senior partner’s opposition files. I learn that people are either red, yellow, green or blue. This is not something I had noticed before so I am obviously not very observant, and that may be why I am such a rubbish manager. Red people are aggressive and task-orientated and often their tasks are quite ambitious, like, for example, taking over the world. Blue people are task-orientated but more passive; they would quite like to take over the world but they don’t mind if someone else does it for them, so long as it is done to the detailed, careful plans they made beforehand. Yellows are aggressive but they care more about people than tasks. They must spend a lot of their time exasperated, because there is nothing more certain than the fact that if you are trying to get on with something – taking over the world, say – Other People will make it awkward for you. Finally, greens are passive and people-orientated. They are happy for other people to take over the world, and then they will go for a drink to celebrate it, or they might go for a drink anyway, just in case. Green people and red people wind each other up enormously, because the greens don’t mind who runs the world so long as everyone is happy, and the reds don’t care whether anyone is happy they just want the world to run efficiently. Clearly the UK’s rail networks are not run by either reds or greens.
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