Klarinet Archive - Posting 000128.txt from 2008/11

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] After Drucker
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:11:31 -0500

On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 01:50:33 -0500, Alexander Brash
<brash@-----.edu> wrote:
>
>> > I am 100% sure that someone could do your job better than you....
>>
>
> As am I! However, my company employs an "up or out strategy" Either I
> outperform the people on the next level and get promoted, or I don't,
> and get laid off, and replaced with a fresh college graduate. Simple
> as that.
>

Fear as primary motivational strategy? That's hardly the recipe for a
satisfying professional career. What happens if you accidentally
discover that you are happy at your current level, with no particularly
desire to be "on the next level"?

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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