Mumbai Refreshed

A good friend had an interesting story to recount. One day, frustrated, he went to his colleague in charge of HR ranting about some co-worker he simply could not work with. The co-worker although very competent professionally was a personality mismatch, and as a team they were disaster.

The HR head said (something along the lines of this)

‘Dude, I am hoping when you move out of this company, there is one thing you would have learnt if nothing else. There are many types of people in this world. Each having unique characteristics. The challenge is not looking for the ones that match your requirements, but dealing with the ones that don’t. I can easily fire this guy, but you will be left with a new guy, with a host of problems you have not yet identified.’

Very wise.