Beware the "Highly Organized" Individual - Karen Conlin, M.Ed

So often in profiles for a desired candidate companies will emphasize "highly organized" in the job description. This may need some further thought. Discipline and tenacity may be better choices.

Having observed many "highly organized" individuals in various industries and positions, there seems to be a common thread in addition to their orderly skills. They all seem to be highly motivated to keep everything in place and are uncomfortable if something is not where they want it. They seem to complain more about various issues and never seem to be truly happy. More time is spent on organizing and less on creating, interacting or team play. While this is a generalization and certainly not an attempt to psychoanalyze behaviors, it does bear consideration in a candidate.

Schools put so much emphasis on grading and rewarding students for memorizing facts but very little on collaboration and creativity skills. Studies have shown that more cheating in school is done by "A" students because they cannot accept failure. Parents who "demand" A's from their children are missing the point of education. It's all about educating the whole child and not just regurgitating what they have been told. Watch the students who have been labeled with ADHD or not good at testing and see who they become as adults.

Richard Branson, Hoda Kotb, and Oprah Winfrey are examples of people who experienced rejections and never had the label of highly organized. What they have in common is discipline, tenacity and creativity. Who wouldn't want these individuals in their organizations?

My View:

Some interesting perspective for sure, but much like extroverts trying to push introverts into being more outgoing I think its important to recognize that success in business is a result of a variety of skill sets all contributing their unique strengths and abilities in the efforts of a company working toward achieving a common set of goals.
The tendency to put creativity above organization is a flaw, you need a balance along the spectrum. Some people land more on one side or the other of the spectrum, but don't forget that the organized folks are usually the one the form a foundational 'glue' that helps keep the creative chaos organized and helps move ideas through to completion. Maybe that is one of the reasons why all big names mentioned in the above article have some great teams of organized people who have seen that the Ideas meet their due end. Hence this theory cannot be applied on all.

Last few months !!

The Sabre team at Jet Blue, Salt lake city UT

Last few months havebeen really busy, different projects,fifferent locations and long hours of work ... I past few months I have had oppurtinities to interact/meet with people from different back grounds and culture. It was a great learning experience. During one of the projects, I met few people who really inspired me in terms of the way they take life and and they shared there experiences with me whenever we went out. Although I also saw a lot of insecurity among few of the people I met and saw the level of dissatisfaction people have from life, from family etc ..

Jet Blue Team & Me

The Airline Solutions Training Team

Project completed successfully : Jetblue and Sabre team

I was in US for almost a month and a half and those days may be I over worked, the reason was to prove myself and abilities when everyone was watching this project very closely. All that hardwork made me lose on ther other end "personal Life".... Staying away from family for that long, talking to them only once a day and when your back you are in a different city  and you don't see them for another couple of months may be...... for a person like me who gets his all motivation from family, makes me more lonely and sometimes SAD....

When in the office its all together a  different ball game. you have to have a MASK on yourself and always be cautious which stops me from being myself ... people pretend to be your friend and everyone tries to outshine others forget calling themselves as a TEAM ... plus the regional biasness is something that you can clearly see. If you happen to be from Channai or kerala or Andra than you would be preffered by all and if your from north (Delhi) specially they think that your some high brow snob who doesn't know anything and treat you as a complete outcast which adds to the your growing frustration.

As I mentioned above that I lost on the personal front, as I am 1600 miles away from friends whom I met and spent weekends with and above all family specially my mum whom I spoke for long hours ...

but as they say that life is a bitch, I like that work I do no matter even if I am out for 3 weeks in a month but I realised one thing that in past year and half that nothing is more precious than family .. you can earn money any day but if you lose your family it would take you ages to get it back ... or may be you would never get them back at all ...

SO ALWAYS RESPECT and LOVE WHAT YOU HAVE... specially your FAMILY... !!