Workplace motivation: I won’t promote you because you just want to do your job well.

Introduction: Whether you are a brave general or a mediocre person now, it is best to improve your loyalty first and share an inspirational article in the workplace. Welcome to read it.

I won’t promote you because you just want to do a good job.

I have a friend who is in his early 30s and works as a technical manager in a Fortune 500 company. He wears rimless glasses, a khaki jacket, a pair of jeans and casual leather shoes that have never been washed all year round. He looks like a typical technical expert. Three years ago, he helped the company solve two major technical problems. At the annual meeting that year, the CEO of the Greater China region patted him on the shoulder and said, "There is a bright future!" Everyone toasted frequently. Everyone and he felt that this boy's opportunity has come! But two years later, people around him are slowly rising. , many people who are not as good as him have become senior executives, but he is the only one who remains motionless.

Regarding the workplace, his thoughts are as simple as the love between hawthorn trees. He feels that the workplace is a place where you rely on your ability to make a living. As long as you improve your abilities, there is no need to take the initiative to make demands, and everything will be there! But it has passed. Over the past year, his skills have gotten better and better, and his path to promotion has become longer and longer. His question is very simple, why do I want nothing and only want to do things well, but I am not promoted?

The answer is very simple, is it because of him? I don’t want anything and only want to do things well. . ?

He violated a golden rule of career development. I suggest you copy it down carefully and repeat it to yourself again if you have nothing to do.

?Under the premise of loyalty, the more capable you are. The higher the better, and under the premise of uncertainty about loyalty, the lower the ability the better. ?

If you classify the people in the workplace, combined with the popular Three Kingdoms Killing, the people in the workplace can be roughly divided into five categories: loyal ministers, eunuchs, mediocre ministers, brave generals, and lords. ?

Loyal ministers are the most popular people in the company, who are loyal and capable. The left hand holds power and the right hand holds options. The core positions of the core departments of the company are usually filled with loyal ministers, and the core upward path of the company is often reserved for important ministers. For example, Zhou Yu, for example, Zhuge Liang.

Eunuchs in enterprises are people who are popular at the top and hated at the bottom, but they can always stand firm. We have heard stories about flatterers since we were young, haven’t we? In fact, eunuchs are also very wronged. Their promotion is not so much because of flattery, but because of the lord. He does have many positions that require eunuchs? For example, the group General assistant, finance (not counting listings, etc.) manpower, in fact, everyone can do the same in these positions, but there are too many inside stories that are not enough for outsiders to understand. This is a good eunuch position; another example is when the company has taken shape. With the system and brand in place, and preparing to open up a market that is bound to be won, eunuch-type players will often emerge without any suspense. In fact, managers also know that eunuchs are not very capable, but low ability itself is a kind of competitiveness. Who wants to have an ambitious financial or human resources manager? In fact, in China, a workplace that has not yet formed a contractual spirit, eunuch players are quite popular.

Let’s talk about mediocre people. There are a huge number of such people, their achievements are mediocre, and they do nothing. If you look up from the article now, you will see them almost everywhere. You can skip them. And the lord is the head of the company, which goes without saying.

The most interesting thing is the fifth type of people: brave generals. They have many achievements in battles and high combat value. They also study in their spare time to increase their experience value. The problem is that their material requirements are not many, but their sense of justice follows their ability. What's worse is that their abilities are too high and they are not very controllable. Companies love and hate this kind of people.

What I love is that if I want to make a big move, I have to invite these guys. What I hate is that if I don’t serve them well, they will go to the opponent. This means that you have finally cultivated a brave future, but before you have time to make a big move, you may have to take another big move (Gome Electric Appliances some time ago, it seems like this). Between being unable to make a move and accepting a move, many companies will choose Let the brave generals stay away from the core business? In the core place, mediocre people are better than brave generals. This makes the talented people feel that their talents are not appreciated and the traitors are in charge. The brave general then moved to another place to fight, until he was too old to fight anymore, and was kicked out of the workplace.

There are many real people like this. For example, in Cao Cao's view, Yang Xiu was the one who always knew the next picture when the leader showed PPT, which was simply hateful.

In the eyes of Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, Yue Fei was always hoping that his old leader would be parachuted back to be the CEO. He was actually even more hateful than the Golden Horseman. So in today's workplace, brave generals charge and kill enemies in the business department, important ministers guard the headquarters of the Beijing Urban Management Group, eunuchs operate financial manpower in the inner palace, and mediocre people hang around everywhere. This layout may seem inappropriate, but it is actually the optimal mechanism to maximize the efficiency of the company's internal operations. It's more about checks and balances than maneuvering.

Do you see it? Regardless of whether you are a brave general or a mediocre person, it is best to improve your loyalty first. It will be easy to be lost by Yue Fei.

It is not difficult to improve loyalty. There is soft power and hard power. If you are usually well-rounded and understanding, and don’t accompany your children to play golf with your boss for a day on Children’s Day, then you belong to the category with relatively strong soft power. But if you feel that flattering others is not what you want, you can also improve your hard power? For example, you can adjust the direction of your ability development to make it better to cooperate with your boss; or you can let the company do some things that you must rely on the company to do. Control you? If you are too lazy to do these things, then buy a house and get married, and then let everyone know that you can't bear the trouble for ten years. It's not a joke. Many companies are recruiting for important positions, and non-married people are not allowed. Better to buy a house.

Going back to the story at the beginning, I told that buddy that you are now a brave general. If you want to be promoted to an important minister, you must have something that allows the company to take care of you. In ancient times, it meant sending your family members to the capital to be raised by the heaven. He went out and looked up to the sky and suddenly realized it. He went home and wrote an email, asking the company to provide money for him to go abroad to study business next year. Three months later, the budget was approved, and six months later, he was promoted.

I think the boss also breathed a sigh of relief, he is finally one of his own.