The Platinum Rule

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POUDEL KRISHNA “The Golden Rule” is about treating people the way a person likes to be treated. It intends to promote empathy. It is also called the ethic of reciprocity. However, the golden rule is not a guarantee that one will get ideal treatment. This rule is just a hope (possibility) that someday each person will treat everyone else with kindness and will receive kindness from others. Ultimately, the core idea of The Golden Rule is just about dealing (treating) people with owns perspective. But in practice, people are not alike. They have personality differences. As a result, this rule is not well enough to be implemented in our personal life as well as professional life. To eliminate the cons of the golden rule, “The Platinum Rule” is born. The Platinum Rule is all about treating people the way they like to be treated. Under this rule, personal standards should not have impact to treat others and one has to base on another’s desire to treat them. A person has to use his knowledge and skill and figures out the people around him. According to the “The Platinum Rule”, every people have his/her own behavioral or personal styles. The way of communication, greeting, expression, the way office looks like etc represents out personality styles. To reduce the conflict between people, we must learn personality traits of other people and adjust our style with their style. Application of the platinum rule is the best way to have better relationship with other people. It helps to understand people well, reduce conflicts and tensions between people and increase satisfaction. As a result, higher productivity with stronger career prospects can be achieved. “The Platinum Rule” has identified four basic behavioral styles of people where every people fall in anyone of them. These styles are directors, socializers, relaters and thinkers. The Directors People in this style are
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