“You act according to habit, customs or business norms instead of mature thought, informed intention and creativity. \u00a0When the inevitable consequences cause harm, you disavow responsibility for an unintended consequence.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
To me, oblivion is this desire to go along with what your peers and leaders say (or decide to do) to make things easier for yourself or others. \u00a0For instance, you know a decision the group is about to reach is not the best, but you remain silent. \u00a0Perhaps out a need for politeness or meeting efficiency, you do not offer you real opinion. \u00a0Or perhaps you are afraid that a contrary option will reflect badly on you – there was about 15 minutes during the conversation that you were more interested in your mobile device than the conversation and and so maybe you missed something.<\/p>\n
In the end, oblivion is this sense that you just do not care anymore – you don’t care about the product, the quality of your work, your relationships with your peers or the organization. \u00a0Just follow the policies and procedures that others have laid out – no matter how crazy, stupid or diminishing they are. \u00a0There is no point in asking a question, or objecting to them, because you have learned time-after-time that no matter what you say or do or think, nothing changes. \u00a0Why show interest or invest in a new idea? \u00a0It is all futile, so why try?<\/p>\n
How do you stop this oblivion and wake the dead? \u00a0Hope. \u00a0Hope is the stirring of new life in people and reawakening their human spirit. \u00a0Hope is the recognition that something better than the status quo of despair, cynicism and oblivion exists and that we are entitled as human beings to have access to an environment which provides autonomy, mastery and purpose. \u00a0Hope is this belief that we deserve better, we just have to reach for it.<\/p>\n
How do you create hope when surrounded by oblivion? \u00a0Act with intention, integrity and mature thought in all your interactions. \u00a0Declare to yourself what you want and then take rational steps to achieve it. \u00a0Many of these goals you can achieve on your own without asking permission, others you may have to ask for help from your peers and colleagues. \u00a0In the process of asking for help, disclose the intentions behind your actions. \u00a0Finally, stop doing things you do not believe in and start taking personal responsibility to fix the policies, procedures and practices that do not make sense.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>To listen to colleagues and peers kill your passion without a word of dialogue is dispiriting and can feel like a punch in the gut. \u00a0Over time, it wears down on you and you begin to edit your own ideas and diminish your own passion with their cynical filters. \u00a0Eventually, you move from simple disbelief to oblivion. \u00a0And oblivion is a bad place to be for an individual, teams and organizations. \u00a0Oblivion is the waking death that is so beyond the run-of-the-mill apathy.<\/p>\n