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Richard Templar:
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 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 on then. But if I can work out a way where everybody can process forty-five widgets then I'm 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? And start to 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 we you become separate from the staff, if you're separate from the staff, well you must be the manager.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.