Klarinet Archive - Posting 000129.txt from 2008/11

From: "Alexander Brash" <brash@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] After Drucker
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:54:00 -0500

> 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"?

It's not really fear so much as ambition - they've made a decision that
the sort of folks they want to keep around are the sort of folks who want
to keep moving up. If you reach a level you're happy with, you generally
go take a job in industry (this is consulting).

On Mon, November 10, 2008 10:11 am, Tim Roberts wrote:
> 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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