It's good to be bad in the corporate world
Have you ever wondered Why bad people are the most successful persons in the business.
Your seen so many seniors bosses, managers supervisors, your fellow colleagues who is terribly bad on their attitudes.
Why this persons are getting more Limelight than yours, it's not because you are good, it's not because they are bad, it's your perception of scenario decides who is bad and who is good.
You want to be good then be good with your family, friends, elders.
At work you are the incharge of your job, don't let other person to tell you how to do your job, if someone tells you that you have to do your job properly then it's the time to think inside, before lashing on someone with harsh words.
At your job you are being paid for to do the job. not to be being good with everybody.
Goodness must have a presence in your nature. But don't show goodness into your task or job, when you have to interact with so many people, it is General principle of the human nature “people will always take advantage of good nature”.
It's OK to help a needy person who is desperate & actually might need your help at the time. But identify the persons who is habitual to take advantage of your goodness every time and not showing gratitude.
You can have a glimpse of this people in your everyday, your colleague who is not able to finish his or her assignment on the time and asking for your help on the weekends when you have plan something bigger or something other are you haven't plant at all but they are asking for your precious time that you can spend which your family.
Have you ever observed that your manager is Furious, when the given task is not completed and not reporting in properly manners. because they have a job to complete and they have paid to observe and manage the resources provided to them, That's why most of the manager are successful because they are keeping a close watch on there subordinates and juniors, they are working operation on every task which you are performing and your team is performing. They give brutal word bomb if you and your team is not functioning well.
You don't have to think out taking this personally, if you have a similar kind of situation at the job, I am not talking about every manager, but some managers are really bad at the communication, appreciation, functionality wise. Whose complete job is to criticize every action of the team. Believe me this kind of managers don't get respect.
If someone is taking job seriously and asking for the progress of the task and taking proactive follow up and keep pushing team members to complete the task within the deadline. It's not bad because they have paid for to do the job. This kind of bad is needed to keep business running.
Remember “if manager getting six figures sum on their paycheck, it's a lots of responsibilities are involved within the six figures.”
you are good at your job and you can do it very nicely there is no doubt about that, imagine if you have to manage team of 5 or 4 members, imagine you to track each and every person’s progress and Keep checking on them, while have to focus on other jobs also, meanwhile if somebody is not functioning properly and getting delayed in the task, imagine the person who is the incharge of the all task and giving the feedback to the higher up’s which entire attention is focusing and gathering the data for next month forecast of the progress, Sales forecast, project progress report, financial value, it can be anything.
Imagine a data is not completed and person is presenting with incomplete data. Then it's a problem.
Managers are not found of excuses. They don't have to entertain any of excuse. They are not paid for to hear the excuses.
Similar in nature you have to be very cautious in your job, you are being paid for your job. It's your responsibility to complete the task within the deadline and inform the progress. If something is not lined up and not functioning then please try to resolve at your end, it's not everything that you can't handle, you can handle it very to getting results on the time, if you have to be Furious that be it, remember you are earning your paycheck. People will always ignore a good nature.
Be prepared for yourself and be bad.
when you are in charge of the job then do it very properly.
Assess the situation.
You can find most of the answer when your assessing the situation of the task, assessing the functionality of your fellow colleagues, team members can give you most of clear picture at the first attempt. You know what time is take to complete a task and you are realising that the person you are assigned the task is taking too much time then you have to be tell them and very straight manner this is the timeline and he or she is taking too much time.
Observe the surrounding.
when you are giving the task or your performing the task it doesn't mean that you have to forget about your surrounding, also keep watch on the surrounding, in your office at job you must be vigilant what is going on the other side, you have to keep your eyes open, if you have given the task which is already above your limit and your capacity, but other team is idle or less bothered, then keep the fact in the mind, let your superiors know very clearly. You can say that if they are not functioning properly then you don't have to be a flag bearer of goody hoody.
Be strong on your words.
Money time persons or not communicating properly because managers are pushing them to the limits, because they know the person is not going to answer back. It's your time to question and challenges same when you are overloaded with your task.
Let's refer a classic example.
Mr greedy one is the manager of divine chocolates. His Subordinate is Mr needy one & they both running the division.
They are doing good till Mr Greedy one decided to resign and go somewhere else.
Surprisingly Mr Needy one is approach by the higher up's to to manage the complete division of divine chocolate till a new manager is appointed.
Mr Needy one is agreed to take the responsibility.
He asked higher up’s : how long it will take to appoint new manager?
Higher up’s: it will take a month to appoint, why you have asked the question?
Mr Needy one: sir I can take the additional responsibility for one month but, if the searching continues and no one is appointed after 1 month then you have to appoint me as an interim manager & have to give temporary pay raise as Mr Greedy one was earning.
In this scenario Mr Needy one has cleared in simple but strong words that he is ready to cooperate but with only certain period of time.
Punish / expose the culprits
The culprits, a person who is highly manipulative to get you into trouble every time. You don't have to be very good with them. Don't like them to score easily. Fight back and show them what you are capable of. A person who is throwing stones must be exposed and punished. Because at work the reputation of being good is not enough. Your reputation must be fearsome. Because person will not take you seriously until you started to take yourself seriously. Don't let your manipulative colleagues and your opponents go easily. If they don't play fair then you also don't be fair. If somebody is trying to destroy you, then don't keep mum hits back with all your intelligence and ground work. Because information is a weapon that you cannot imagine how much information can work. Gather data, gather evidence, prepare everything you can and show them you are not fool as they think.
Again being bad it's not a bad thing at all..
Who is bad and who is good it's all you have to decide, I leave it to your fine sense of wisdom.
