When the economy tanks and everyone is desperate to keep their jobs and all the folks you thought were your friends are attempting to ‘knife’ you to keep their jobs…….how do you react? …….or do you react?
I have watched many people over the last two years flutter and fumble around more concerned about ‘keeping’ their job than they have been with ‘doing’ their job. I have developed a pretty simple formula for folks that work for me. ‘Do’ your job and the chances are higher that you will ‘retain’ your job. This is the first part of my equation. The second is much like the first. Secondly, if you want to know if your job is secure, ask this question of it (the job) or of yourself, “Do I add value to the customer?” If you can not answer ‘yes’ to this question, then you should get real nervous. The days of floating along in a large corporation ‘under the radar’ are over. If you can not say for sure that you add value to your customer, you should start figuring out a way in which you can add value.
I think human nature is to ‘over react’ to every little tidbit of news we hear each day. We rush through our work to ‘keep our job’. We major on the minor. At the end of the day, every single person in an organization should be able to list at least one way in which they add direct value to their customer. If we all did this, the world would be a better place………and if we all ‘did’ our job for the customer instead of focusing on ‘keeping’ our job within the corporation, the world would also be a better place to live.
Serious times require serious people. Quality wins……..no matter the economy.
kml
2009
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