Many ambitious managers ask themselves: What are the necessary requirements to build a extraordinary career? A lot of research has been made into this subject and countless principles have been defined that might influence a person’s career trajectory.
In reality all these principles and recommendations are futile, there is just one simple rule that one has to keep in mind to achieve an extraordinary career: contributing to the success of the organization.
What sounds like a simple, even simplistic rule has become something that is increasingly difficult in todays companies. Compared to small companies or startups the division of labor in large companies is so sophisticated that the individual contribution is not obvious all the time.
This leads to situations where employees are busy with work, working with determination on a task and striving to mobilize resources to push an idea forward. But ultimately these efforts evaporate because the don’t contribute to the success of the organization.
One common situation is that employees or managers fall in love with a task or a process and they invest all their time in working the task right but at the end lose perspective what the motivation for the task was.
Investing extraordinary efforts to make the perfect sales presentation or business forecast is a great way to become an expert. But at the same time this is dangerous because while it is honorable to invest time to create perfection for internal documents, the time might have been better invested in moving the project forward.
This turns out to be a major reason for stalling careers when employees focus on their task and try to deliver the perfect results and at the same time forget that they should help to move the organization forward.
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