Today, I would like to take you on a journey. It is one of vision, wisdom, and accomplishment. I want to share with you some practical insights that will allow you to expand your horizons, get a promotion, and live the corporate good life.
The promotion
In order to gain credentials for promotion, I would like to break down, using logic, how the promotion cycle works. First, people who do lots of work make lots of mistakes. That is perfectly okay, and you need these types of people at all levels of the organization. These are the types to work hard to become a “manager”. If you want to be promotable, this cannot be you.
Then there are people who do less work and make less mistakes. These are the people that fill most of the organization, but are not you.
Finally, there are those that do no work. People that do no work make no mistakes and therefore become promotable. So here are some tips:
- Spend your time going around and creating small talk conversations with many people. This will cause time to blow by without any work being completed.
- Spend part of the day browsing emails.
- Spend part of the day browsing the internet.
- Spend the rest of your day playing games on your phone or computer.
The reason to do these things is so that no work is completed, which allows for a mistake-free day. Ultimately, people will see that you do not make mistakes like the others do. This will lead to promotion due to the fact that you have not put the added, unnecessary drama on your boss, like those that actually do work.
After the promotion, the good life
Once you get to the top, it can be a lonely place, but it does not have to be. Are you starved for attention? Are you not feeling so smart today? Do you hate making any type of decision? Well, here is the solution: schedule a meeting! You could just reply to an email, but why? What is the fun in that? What sense of belonging and pride do you get from sending an email?
