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Unfortunately, no. When we do something fast, when we drive the challenges and want to improve the processes, be ready, that some of your colleagues just want to get finished what should be. And when you try to say that – hey, guys, I see here the room for improvement, because this… or that… you can face the wall.

Several years ago, I was very upset by one of such situations. I have a big experience dealing with different personalities, and even though it’s really hard not to find the way to talk to me – it’s true, I love people and always open to any ideas and initiatives, well, I must admit, that sometimes, you need to let people work as they do. So, returning to the point. I was really upset – I just couldn’t understand why they don’t see the room for improvement, why they don’t want to change the process, why they, at least, don’t want to discuss what could be done?

Once, one of my bosses, being very wise man, told me – look, you shouldn’t spend your energy on this, you shouldn’t be upset, because they are not the only ones whom you will meet in your life being the people, who are not on one side with you. And it is normal. We all have people in our teams who work differently, who don’t have the same approach – hey, let’s do it, let’s run, do it faster, better, etc. No.

I should say, that really, sometimes, it is being very upset thing, when you don’t see the feedback in the eyes of your colleagues, when you propose good reasonable things to be done. And it’s not about how easy it can be to talk to them. No, we absolutely calmly can meet during lunch and discuss ordinary processes, but when it comes to do a little bit more or, what is more important, differently, please, be welcome to the club of witches who push them, and try to make confusion in their established life.

And it is ok. Sooner or later it will move. Because in the terms of current economy situation business cannot wait too long when everybody wake up. But in every team we have such people. And it is ok as, well, we are all different. There is nothing ideal in our life. You need to show more flexibility communicating with people around us. Be sure – they know their job, but being slow, they can be annoying in their wish to keep things as they are. From psychological point of view, they want to keep the stability. This helps them to keep balance. We know that business world is very fast and we should be very flexible in our approaches. But, keep calm and just accept the fact that you cannot expect all to run as you do. Marathon distance is always different to different people. Be generous in understanding others.