Let’s Be Individualistic!

When you do not have a goal, you are eas­ily mis­led into doing things that is against your prin­ci­ples.  You may pro­ceed as nor­mal, receive it and work on it.  You ques­tion your­self the rea­son for doing this task at a point of time that you feel lost.  Is it valu­able to do this task in the first place?  Did you ques­tion the ben­e­fit of per­form­ing this task to you?

Today, we are pre­sent­ing an indi­vid­u­al­is­tic idea that will suit you when it comes down to the deci­sion mak­ing.  Which means some might feel it is self­ish idea or against their prin­ci­ples.  What­ever the case it’s fine with us.  Take it at face value and have a thought about it.  We must rec­og­nize one thing that is the pen­sion days are gone.  Loy­alty is not a sell­ing point in keep­ing tal­ents to stay.  It is the cash power that the organ­i­sa­tion is will­ing to give to those that per­form.  There­fore, think for your­self when you need to make a deci­sion or take on tasks.

When you are assigned a new task, will it ben­e­fit you in any­way?  Exam­ple, the task is to track all employ­ees’ daily activ­i­ties.  Is this a task that is ben­e­fi­cial to you?  Does it help in your career pro­gres­sion?  When the time comes that you need to leave the organ­i­sa­tion, can you put in the resume stat­ing that you “track all employ­ees’ daily activ­i­ties” and have accom­plish­ments such as, “I’ve caught 2 employ­ees surf­ing Face­book daily”?  Of course, there are ways to pack­age your job respon­si­bil­i­ties in your resume in future.  But at the base­line, does such task bring any value to you?

Think if your organ­i­sa­tion or your busi­ness func­tion was to be dis­perse (be it for what­ever rea­sons, such as sales is bad, merger and acqui­si­tion, or no longer find it strate­gic to con­tinue the busi­ness func­tion) and you need to leave (made to leave) the organ­i­sa­tion, can you list down your sell­ing points as a prospec­tive employee with full of skill set?  What will they think if of you with your cur­rent job respon­si­bil­i­ties?  Will your work expe­ri­ence (and the deci­sions make to con­tribute to the work expe­ri­ence) be use­ful to your prospec­tive employer?  Think about what the mar­ket out there is wanting!

And remem­ber, your deci­sion is account­able to your fam­ily.  Of course, your deci­sion may be account­able to your organ­i­sa­tion.  But when you are being removed from the organ­i­sa­tion, you no longer need to be account­able to them (you might even curse and swear at them!).  Instead, you are now account­able to your fam­ily in bring­ing the cash to feed them!  Do you have the right skill set to secure a new job and feed them?

The prin­ci­ples here are indi­vid­u­al­is­tic.  You work for your­self and your fam­ily.  Some may argue that this is a self­ish mind­set and hin­ders organ­i­sa­tion pro­gres­sion or do not con­sider the emo­tions of other col­leagues.  Agreed and dis­agreed.  Take this advice at face value and do things that you deem fit.  It’s not a 100% per­fect solu­tion and you might want to tune it here and there to make it per­fect for you (and your char­ac­ter).  At the base­line, we are advis­ing you that what­ever you do, think for your career goals.   Do not blindly fol­low instruc­tions from your bosses.  You may end up get­ting no where eventually!

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