| May
23, 2008
The Unspoken Rules Of Getting Ahead
Interview
with Richard Templar author of
The Rules of Work |
Mike
Carruthers:
To get ahead in your career, you have to know the
rules.
Richard
Templar:
The number one rule is you must be very, very good at
your job and you must never let anybody see how hard you have to work to be that
good at your job. Richard
Templar, author of the book The
Rules Of Work, says beyond that there are some other very important yet seemingly
subtle rules of work. Most
people think that if they're very, very efficient they will get on ahead and be
promoted and this isn't necessarily true. You have to be very effective rather
than efficient. So, if I'm very good at my job and I'm very efficient and I'm
processing widgets and I process forty widgets a day and I suddenly realize that
I can maybe process forty-five widgets a day I might be looking for a promotion
and you're never going to get ahead that way.. But if I can work out a way where
everybody can process forty-five widgets then you're the next general manager. If
you want to be the next general manager or whatever job you want next… Look
at whoever does the job now. How do they dress, what style of manager are they?
Startto adopt some of those mannerisms and then you become that person. Richard
says the more you act like a manger, the more likely you are to become part of
the management team. For example… Staff
always talks about "them." "They have imposed this rule on us."
Whereas if you talk about us, you become separate from the staff - if you're separate
from the staff, well you must be the manager.
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