The Comment Tater

All I can say is hallelujah that someone else feels this way. Maybe it is just me...

Tonight, while looking at some of my links in my blogroll, I ran across this post from Jim Durbin titled "Strive for Dissatisfaction." Great read, in my opinion. In the following excerpt, Jim's wife hits a homerun with her quote, stated below:

"Nothing new was ever created by a satisfied person. Dissatisfaction is what motivates us to achieve, create, and alter our circumstances to do more, be more, and make more."

Quite a woman, eh? And she's right. Companies use employee satisfaction as a metric to measure their benefits against those of their competitors and reduce turnover. There's nothing wrong with that, but there's nothing right with it, either.

The key to true satisfaction lies in doing a job well - facing a challenge and defeating it. Dissatisfaction in our world is considered a negative emotion - like it's somehow wrong to want something better. If companies truly want to excel, perhaps they ought to poll their dissatisfied workers and find out what is it they want done better. Maybe the key to turbocharging stock prices is not eliminating dissension from the ranks, but encouraging its expression in order to find out what it is you can do better.

Or you can keep doing what you're doing and wonder why things never seem to change.

Jim, your wife is has a beautiful mind.