Don't be Stupid, pretend to be a Stupid at workplace

Yes, you have read right what I have to say next it's not a foolish subject to share with the wise audience like you.

Being in a job is not an easy task for everyone, some people can adapt very easily and becoming part of the pack and they don't have a problem with the rest the crowd.

It almost happened or to be happening at the right now to almost everyone of us. 

Being in a job or at the life at some moment a person has to or must to do compromise beyond their capabilities and capacities. I have seen in my over a decade of career many smart and talented people are having the trouble to adjust themselves among the most childish and foolish kind of people. Where they have to save them self from the wisdom of the crowd and at the same time they have to be bear the consciousness of doing not the right or not choosing the best way to perform a task are the normal job. 

Being in a team is not easy way to adjust yourself. Because not every time you can find the winning team or best performing team,  sometime you have to be a very cautious and to be extra cautious I mean to say because you know the people around you are not functioning very well are they going into another direction but you cannot stop them because you know the moment you try to stop them they all come together and throw you out. You have to be very extra careful when you are dealing with the Team which is not happy with you and trying to overpower you every time.

So in this scenario you will be outnumbered bye bunch of people. It is not advisable to go against number of people, because in the end number wins. at the same time your consciousness of not doing right it's killing you from inside. This is happened with all talented and caring professionals who literally can see what is coming next. 

To be working in a team it requires a lot of patience to corporate with all bunch of other people. Being in a team you have to be choose what is best for you and you for your team, because either way you have to follow your leader and ignore your instincts and to choose to follow leader blindly. Because what is happening when bunch of other professionals whose job is nothing more than to collect the paycheck in the end.

You cannot change the mentality and the perception of a fellow team members from the day one. What is best for you that you have to be very patience and keen on observing what you are doing and which order you are following. If you want to be a grow and to keep yourself at peace, then you have to be learn the art of deception, because into corporate you cannot change the People's mentality and the opinion very instant, 

for example, let's have a look for Classic scenario.

Mr David is a part of a team, has just joined a team a few months back. His team leader Mr White is a stubborn and a crazy team leader who is not keen on to analyse and the accept input from the fellow team leaders. He's just like a dictator and doesn't want to be changed the way he is working. 

On the other side Mr David has just joined the team few months back and he is very much appreciated professional around his previous assignments. And he has been chosen by the top management to keep pushing team beyond limits to maximize the profitization from the assignments. 

Mr David has came to know that Mr White is not likely to be handled or likely to be advised by bunch of juniors or fellow co workers., he knows if he offers him or try to explain what the better way to handle the task, it will hurt Mr white's ego and soon Mr White will turn the table on him and keep David grilling for every occasion that he can find. So for instant Mr David has came to know that he has to be very cautious while dealing with Mr White. 

On a group meeting of new assignment all of his team members gathered including Mr White to decide the strategy and to share the responsibility and the workload among the all other team members. 

Mr white has assigned another team member Mr Grey to Mr David to handle the operation commands of the project. Mr David knows that Mr Grey had failed miserably in the operation commands on the previous assignments. So Mr David has a new challenge to work on two fronts, he also has to manage operation commands and Mr Grey at the same time. So he has no choice but to work with Mr Grey and let the Mr White believe he wins. 

In this scenario Mr white believes that he had played Mr David to take burden of Mr Grey and his incompetency to perform operation commands. 

Now Mr David knows he has been played by Mr White, he cannot oppose him because he's a team leader and his action will be counted as a insubordination and he will be landed in serious trouble. So what Mr David can do? 

Mr David sees this as a opportunity to prove himself as a potential team leader, he had a word with Mr Grey. He has discussed with Mr Grey about his vision and told him how to overcome with this kind of troubles and to be a asset of the team. David explained Mr Grey that he can help him with his operational commands a little experience. Mr Grey as they agreed to Mr David and promised him to be corporate with him and they both will see the opportunity to prove themselves both. 

in this scenario Mr White is thinking that Mr David is the stupid to work with Mr Grey but Mr White doesn't know that David and grey have already been working on the same page to save themselves. Mr White thinks that it's stupid moved to accept Mr Grey as a team member and Mr David keep let believing Mr White that ‘’ he has won. 

After six months of battling with tremendous amount of pressure Mr David's has efforts been paid off and Mr Grey is now fully capable to handle operational commands. Mr David already thinking about Mr Grey from the beginning that he can be asset to the team. Mr David had a deal with human resources, the deal has a stipulation.

The stipulation was like that” if Mr Grey can survive operational commands responsibility and if he can be turned in to the Asset he will be transferred to the another office and can given him independent charge.” 

Finally Mr David's efforts are paid off. Now Mr Grey is fully functional and responsible person who can take any assignments regardless to the operation commands. he is now been promoted a step further and transferred to the another base of operation. 

And when Mr White has came to know that Mr Grey is promoted internally he is stunned by the move made by David. Mr David had played very nicely and turned a problem into opportunity and in the end Mr Grey and Mr David both ended with a victory. 

it was not possible until Mr David had decided bring up his game and let Mr White know that he is not an easy target. He keeps Mr White believing that it was a stupid move to accept Mr Gray as a team member. and that was a mistake. 

Mr David played stupid and in the end he makes a stupidity out of Mr White. 

In this scenario we can observe that not every opportunity is to be landed at your feet you have to be keep evolving and be fully observant about your surroundings. 

Maybe people will count you as a stupid but it is I believe it's nothing to do with what they have believed. You can make your move and get the thing what you want in the end. 

So, Somebody Thinks You are Stupid, let the fools Believe it.