To build an organization up, you’ve got to do remarkable work for your colleagues, for your boss, for your clients, and I’m sure a few others. You always have to be ON.
To build yourself up in an organization, it’s likely you’ll put things for your colleagues and clients on hold because your boss (who has the ultimate decision power on if you’re promoted or not) has asked you for something.
Here’s the dilemma: do you stop doing great work for everyone involved to do slightly greater work for one person?
Street performers have this dilemma every time someone stops to listen or watch them. Do they focus on entertaining that one person, building up the show to an eventual climax or do they try performing a constant jaw-dropping performance so all who pass by toss some change in their bucket?
Here’s my view: we give too much power to our bosses and the individuals whom we stop everything for to devotedly please. Why? Because the boss will ask colleagues and clients what they think of you before deciding to promote you and the one person who the street performer singles out, might not have any money on them.
This isn’t a matter of appealing to the masses, it’s a matter of performing holistically. It’s a matter of caring about your work and your tribe.
Stay Positive & No One Said It’s Harder (That Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Worth It)
