Brian Tracy gives career-advice focused guidance on choosing the right job and company. He argues that competence lets people rise above workplace politics, warns against staying in boring or unsatisfying roles, and tells an anecdote about a woman who left a large company for a small growing firm and rapidly advanced (promoted twice in 14 months, 40% higher earnings). He closes with two concrete recommendations: enjoy and do your work well, and ensure your employer offers opportunities for growth.
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Here's a great Only the truly competent individual can be free of politics in an organization. When you're really good at what you do, you can actually rise above politics. Think about it. It's the mediocrities at work who have to play games. And every study shows that although they sometimes succeed in the short term, they invariably fail when everyone figures them out. Select your work carefully and if you don't love what you're doing enough to want to be the best at it, get out. Flee from the boring or unsatisfying job as you would from a burning building. Working at something that you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life. Remember this life is not a rehearsal for something else. One key to getting onto the fast track is for you to work for the right company and the right boss. The right company is one that respects its people and practices pay for performance. The right company is dynamic, growing, open to new ideas, and full of opportunities for people with ambition and initiative. A woman spoke to me at a seminar recently and reminded me that she had asked me a question at a seminar about two years ago. She had told me that she was very ambitious and hard working, but that she wasn't making any progress in the large company where she worked. She felt it was because most of the senior executives were men in their 50s and 60s, and that women had a hard time getting into positions of responsibility. What could she do? She asked me at that time. Apparently I told her quite frankly that there was nothing she could do. The senior executives and the company were not going to change if she was really as capable as she said. I told her to find a job with a young growing company that wouldn't care if she was a woman as long as she could do the job well. She told me that she had followed my advice, quit her job much to the disapproval of her co workers, and found a job with a small growing company. And it was exactly as I had said. She had been promoted twice in the last 14 months. She was already earning 40% more than her best year with her previous company. So here are two things you can do to assure that you are in the right position. First, make sure that you really enjoy your work and that you do it well. You'll never be successful at a job that you don't like. And second, be sure that there are lots of opportunities for you to grow, develop and advance in your company. Your future is too valuable to waste where there is no future. Thank you for viewing this video on selecting your company carefully if you enjoyed this video, please press the like button below and click on the link on the screen to subscribe to my channel.
