Advice from retired senior leaders: Why should employees not think about being a 'good old man' at work?
In the workplace, there is a saying called "survival of the fittest", but in fact, "survival of the fittest" is not accurate, it should be called "promotion of the fittest". In the workplace, everyone has their own personality traits. Some are taciturn, some are pushy, some are flattering, some are preoccupied, and there is also a class of people called "workplace old people". For them, they can survive in the workplace, but it is difficult to advance! Why is this so?
Advice from retired senior leaders: Why should employees not think about being a "good old man" at work?
First, let's take a look at the characteristics of good people in the workplace:
- It is not easy to reject good people in the workplace
For the word "no", it is inherently difficult to say it, whether it is the request of a colleague or the request of the leader. As long as there is not too much conflict with their own interests, they will accept even if the request is unreasonable. In this way, many cunning employees will make full use of this and often ask them to do some unimportant things. Delay your most important work. Colleagues generally like such employees, but in the eyes of the boss, they will only make them think that such employees are mediocre, have no personality, and cannot distinguish the priority of things. Although leaders are more at ease with employees with such a personality, they will not arrange such employees for some important tasks.
Advice from retired senior leaders: Why should employees not think about being a "good old man" at work?
- Love when and when you are old
Where there is a workplace, there will be interests, and where there are interests, there will be conflicts, and unpleasant things will inevitably happen among colleagues. And the old man will also act as a persuasive role at this time. But there is one thing they may not have figured out. In the conflict between colleagues, can you tell who is right and who is wrong? Obviously not possible. If you casually intervene in disputes between colleagues before you find out the truth, you are likely to offend one of them. Even if your original intention is good, others will not appreciate it.
- There is not much principled, and never clearly express their position
The workplace is a place where rules are very serious, and good people are very vague on many rules that don't seem to be so important. In fact, this is a taboo. In a company, if the subordinate employees are not principled like this, it is not conducive to the overall development of the team.
Advice from retired senior leaders: Why should employees not think about being a "good old man" at work?
- Never blame others
Good people also want to make a good impression in front of their leaders. Therefore, many times good people don’t report problems to their leaders in time. They hide things. As long as things don’t get out of hand, they may never take the initiative to talk about it. Understand, or even perfunctory, most of the time they just passively wait and accept.
- Unwilling to take responsibility. In the workplace, good people generally do not take the initiative to take responsibility.
Therefore, before doing a task, they will only ask the leaders for instructions again and again. Many things, they could have made their own decisions, but they will not, because once there is a problem, his responsibility will be less.
Summary of retired senior leaders: In the workplace, good old people are needed, but once there are more good old people, it will have a great impact on the atmosphere of the entire team, work efficiency, and company interests. Therefore, in the workplace, if you want to be truly promoted and truly become a strong person, you must cultivate your own responsibility and personal prestige. What do you think?