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Category: Career Path
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R W Emerson said, “What you do is so loud in my ears that I can’t hear what you say.” This is an excellent adage to follow when dealing with senior leadership within your organization. This is a reality most people have to face in their organization.
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Many organizations end up creating and fostering employees who perform well but have bad attitude. It is good to understand why these employees survive and thrive, and what you can do about it.
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Workplace Reality #7: Organizations are full of leaders and managers who are incompetent and painful
More often than not, you deal with incompetent leaders in your organization who get in your way rather than help you. It is important to understand this reality and work around it. And when you do find a good leader, you stay around them as much as you can because they are a rare breed.
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It is important to distinguish between skill-based and experience-based competencies when deciding what to build your expertise in, otherwise you will quickly lose advantage at workplace.
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Stack ranking keeps the ‘valuable employees’ in focus, Bell Curve forces managers to be realistic in rating performance. These are good tools but are too hard to use, and their use ends up creating more harm than good. So how do you deal with them?
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Compensation Planning in most organizations are dependent on market and business conditions, and so it is important to understand those dynamics and not confuse it as a measure of your capabilities or performance.
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Performance appraisal systems were designed using assumptions that don’t hold true in modern workplaces. No wonder appraisals yield upsetting results!
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This post is part of the series on 9 Realities of Modern Workplace. In this post, we talk about Reality #2: “Organization deliberately sets up goals for people and departments that conflict with each other”. There are 2 reasons why organizations end up creating conflicting goals: Organizations need a healthy checks-and-balances system. They need one…
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This post is part of the series on 9 Realities of Modern Workplace. In this post, we talk about Reality #1: “Organization doesn’t care about you, it only cares about the value you create”. A job is a financial arrangement: you offer to provide value, and the organization pays you for it. Like any other…
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While talking to a project manager in a services company recently, I was reminded of how little people (even those with 8-10 years of experience) understand modern workplace. We were talking about promotions and bonuses and she was lamenting the fact that promotions very rarely happen in the mid-year review. When I asked her why…
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