One of my major life experience in July this year, that has shaped my persepective about the things that really matters. I could count it as a key defining moment in my life.
Overall, we thank God for life and all we have been able to achieve this year.
Never stop living and leading. ❤️❤️❤️
@Blue_Footy@JacobsBen This is nice but I am not overtly excited about the signing. We are just bringing another young player to a team that needs maturity.. We are never getting out of this mess anytime soon.
Not even gonna lie.. The quality of information and knowledge sharing coming off twitter in recent times has been astonishing.
Quality and smart people for every scroll... Clean up your timeline ooo
Don’t get mad at the players, learn the rules of the game.
I started at Shell on the same day on the same job grade as another team member.
This guy did the bare minimum at work. His performance was a “C” at the end of our first year. He got the same mediocre score at the end of our 2nd year as well.
Yet he got promoted.
I was livid.
I had much better performance ratings those two years and he’s getting the promotion?
I later found out that he has pre-negotiated his promotion before even getting the job.
He wanted to come in at a higher level but they gave him a lower one, the same level I came in with, with a promise that if he performed at a “C” or better grade for two years in a row, they would promote him.
So, it’s just contracts at work. He simply knew he could do that and did.
We started on the same day on the same job level, but we were not the same. He was operating with a different agreement.
That experience showed me that HR rules are mostly BS and so I started negotiating every thing. Instead of being mad at my colleague or my boss or their agreement, I learned from it.
Interestingly, I discovered that I didn’t hate the players or the game. Quite the opposite: I loved it. I got way more by the simple act of asking. I was surprised at how much I was leaving on the table.
Understand the rules. If you don’t like it. Get out of the game. But you can’t hate the players.
Look, you need to approach your 9-5 as a business. In the business world, you hustle, you negotiate, you trade (by barter), I give you this, you get me that.
Don’t let the company rules fool you…most of them are meant to keep the timid in check. Be bold. Ask.
Fortune favors the bold.