Being direct, frank, authentic and natural self is ok but below is not. We should not be normalizing this:

• Achieve targets literally at any cost
• Repeated bad behaviour in hierarchy
• Messing up people’s personal lives
• Using words like professionalism & seasoned to avoid doing what needs to be done
• Playing mind games with people fresh out of college
• Delegate and then take credit for other’s work
• Judge people without knowing context
• Promote silos, avoid team work and mess up collaboration and creativity
• Pay someone less than market rate if we can afford the real salary
• Treat people like trash and take advantage of them
• Not fix the fixable
• Not doing the right thing
• Bring personal biases into the organization
• Have different set of rules for the same input and output for different groups of people
• We are not at war, we are in information technology / services industry
• Most people lose their cool or misbehave once in a while or have a bad day once in a while but if that is a habit ingrained in the culture of the organization affecting large parts of the organization then there is a problem that needs a relook

Email me: Neil@HarwaniSystems.in