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I have not met many people (no one comes to mind) who have said that they earn what they deserve. Most people claim that they should be paid more (than they do.)
When are you being paid the right amount of money? Supply-and Demand would dictate that you are earning exactly what you are worth. If [...]
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Failure to assess your own competence
In many ways this related to the prior posting about inability to recognise weaknesses. But it actually goes further than that: people simply over-rate themselves. We have been fed an American diet of:
over-achievement,
positive thinking,
self-belief,
that we end up believing our own press. Capability and talent is distributed on a [...]
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The contrarian’s view of winning at office politics.
Rule 1: Make friends and shape that into a network. You need them to help you win the war. No individual can beat the whole system. (S)He with the most friends win - no matter what stunt the other person pulls.
Rule 2: Make friends by GIVING and [...]
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This series does not cover the ‘reasons for failure’ in any particular order, but if it did, this particular malady would be very near the top of the list.
Poor networking is the underlying cause of many, many failures. In any business, whether it is just you in a start-up, or whether you are part of [...]
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Part 5 in this short series. (Who knows how long it will be? J ). Initially I thought I’d stick to the fundamental, root causes only, but the reality is that most people will only read titbits, and not necessarily in one go, so I will simply highlight these reasons as they come to mind; [...]
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I must be honest about the previous post and admit the weakness that I have fallen in love with. (Blogs should be about honesty, right? And besides, and can’t just point the finger at everyone else without acknowledging my own failures; that would be hypocritical and that is NOT one of my weaknesses.)
My own weakness [...]
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Weaknesses parading as strengths
Managers, myself included, often refuse to acknowledge that our personalities are defective; or at the very least that we have traits and attitudes (that are in essence weaknesses) but that we have become comfortable with and have grown to accept and even like.
We often see this in interview when candidates are [...]
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Another reason for managerial failure is the total under-estimation of emotion; and its corollary, over-estimating the importance of the rational or intellectual.
Smart people (as a group) are no more successful than any other group of people at managing. I have no research to back this up, but I would even hazard a guess that they [...]
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There are a host of reasons. I have studies enough, learned enough and failed enough to have some compelling arguments as to why managers fail…
Over time I’ll explore a few of those. The obvious one is incompetence – but I will ignore that as a reason. Arguably that is the error of the manager’s manager [...]
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