Life is a whole. And, we have closed down ourselves to both ourselves and each other with an unacknowledged arrogance. We don't see, appreciate, and thus don't translate skills from one area of life, from one department in a company, to another. We think with a mind spotlighting scarcity, that we don't have time to run from one thing to another, time we spend in one area is not available to another. We think success in one role justifies failure in another.
Engineering achievement is okay even if our personal life is falling apart.
Gardening has nothing to do with academics. Loving qulaities of parenting are divorced from the qualities of management or teaching. A carpenter can't have anything in common with a professor The bottom line is that we all have perceptions that guide our thinking and actions. If currently we have negative and disvisive perceptions, I see no reason we cannot work hard to create positive and unifying mental models. No model, no system, no operation exists without people.