05/10/2022
10 Important Corporate Lessons:
1. Use your brain at work and emotions at home.
2. Never write/reply to any mail when you’re frustrated.
3. Your boss could be friendly, but at the end of the day, he is not your friend. Respect boundaries. The relationship between him and you is solely based on the returns to him.
4. Follow-up is the key to everything. Work delegated is blame inherited. Delegate the work but never delegate the thought.
5. Feed your subordinates with your maximum knowledge, encourage them, cheer them and eventually, when they make breakthroughs, celebrate with them. They will be with you when you turn into an entrepreneur.
6. Unless you ask, you aren’t getting anything. It is not a favour but your right. If it is denied, you know your value and place.
7. Your manager likes you less than you think.
8. People are friendly to you only when you are influential, or they need you. Once the need or influence changes, so does their behaviour. The same thing spoken by a CXO has a different meaning than what you speak.
9. Everyone is replaceable, and you will eventually be replaced. The only way to make it difficult is by assuming more roles and responsibilities.
10. My personal favourite :
Imagine, there is a bucket of milk in our hands.
It may be a promotion we have laboured for, a project or a coveted posting. Seeking revenge, or not checking your words and actions, may lead to the loss of any of these.
Just forgive the irritation and incitements, let go and move on so those more extraordinary things are not lost.
Watch your back! The nicest people in an office are the wolves in sheep’s clothing. They want us to kick back so that our buckets of milk will be gone. Don't let that happen.
Learn to ignore. The bad actors would be served cold by the Karmas, and if yours are good, you will play a witness.
