I roughly categorise people’s approach to work into two different categories: Trying to get and Trying to build. Most people will fall into the trying-to-get category. I classify them as hoarders. They are in an endless game of trying to accumulate stuff. Hoarders are always scared that they might not get enough and so they end up doing dubious things to get more. This trying-to-get approach to life and work is very limited and restricts one to only consider the narrow avenue of one’s own gains.
The trying-to-build approach is different. Builders usually make things better for many people around them, not just themselves. They recognise that there is a ripple effect in what they do. Builders understand that there are consequences to disloyalty, lies, short-cuts, corruption, sloppiness, and whatever else tends to be the standard for work these days.
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