Be resolute in 2017 and focus attention on the individuals around you

Attention needs to be paid to individuals by individuals, rather than to The Workforce by The Management, says Terry Prone. 

HERE’S the problem with New Year resolutions. Like diets, they don’t work. Yet every year, we commit to a series of self-betterment activities as if to prove the truism that what we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

It’s the self-betterment bit that serves as the tripwire. Resolutions tend to be based on the medieval monk assumption that whipping yourself will make you a better person and also make you feel better. For a small minority of masochists, this has always been true. The rest of us, not so much.