Corporate Clarity: 10 Unvarnished Truths About Professional Pursuits
- There is a always a colleague who is half talented but earns twice. It’s because they asked for it and you didn’t. Truth is — If you don’t ask for it, you won’t get it.
- Every organisation/function has some messy work that no team member wants to do. If you want to grow fast — Raise your hand and own that shit
- It’s completely okay to have a boring job that pays well Vs job you are passionate about that doesn’t fulfill your means
- There are 2 kind of people in Senior management. One who worked too hard to climb up the ladder and Second who just stayed long enough to get lucky
- One bad year of low increment/delayed Promotion which may be pinching you today won’t matter in the long term.
- To grow in any organisation, Hard work alone is not sufficient. You need to excel on softer aspects like networking, soft skills, EQ etc.
- Good(Efficient) employees always gets burdened with disproportionately higher amount of work than employees who slack at work
- Loyalty has a price tag. From peon to CEO anyone will leave the company the moment they are offered better opportunity
- But equal truth is neither company is loyal towards employees. Two consecutive bad quarters and they may cut you loose
-It’s difficult to survive in a bad organisation but it’s impossible to survive a bad boss.
Whom you report to > company you work for.
