If you have been working hard and still wonder about your lack of growth in a particular corporate company, it need not be due to your incompetency but could be because you are too intelligent!
If you have been working hard and still wonder about your lack of growth in a particular corporate company, it need not be due to your incompetency but could be because you are too intelligent!
Corporate companies do talk about fresh initiatives, new ideas, and company transparency and all that in my experience is nothing but a load of shit packed in colourful wrappers.
No idea, however good it may be, will be taken into consideration until and unless your immediate boss is happy with you. The idea will be brutally killed in the first phase itself. And remember it is NEVER a good thought to skip your immediate superior and reach the super boss with your idea. You will harm two important things in the mood of doing good to your company.
1) You will be rubbing your immediate boss at the wrong end, who invariably holds your key to the success in the corporate world &
2) You might end up being called a trouble-maker as you tried to break the pattern also called hierarchy
End of the day if you sit and think - this whole mess would sound like a big JOKE! Also in the process of presenting your idea for the benefit of the company you would have made enough enemies around you! So, it is better you keep your ideas to yourself and keep your mouth shut until and unless you are asked for your inputs.
I am reminded of a beautiful example of one of my closest friends who came to the Indian Express, Mumbai to write a test for becoming a reporter. He had done his Masters in Journalism out of choice, unlike me who took up MA Mass Communication just to have a good time with pretty girls in the department. (No other department in our college had 1:5 boy-girl ratio)
He was given the test paper, and the questions asked were really silly to the core…
The question asked, and the way my friend answered them…(the ones I remembers now)
1) Who is Sitaram Kesari?
Ans – An old man in a hurricane
2) Who is Priyanka Gandhi?
Ans – Mrs Robert Wadhwa
Chandru found the questions too elementary for a person who is gonna get recruited for the 2nd largest selling newspapers in India. He continued with his sarcastic answers for all the questions, which were right…but at the same time arrogant too! He was called by the resident editor I don’t mind naming him he was BV Rao, and was told, “you are too good, the answers are cool too. But we cannot take you because you won’t fit in our SYSTEM!”
Corporate recruit only those people who fit in their scheme of plan. Obviously a Project Manager won’t recruit a person who is more intelligent than him, nor a journalist would recruit a person whose language is better than his. All want to stick to their job with or without doing their jobs, and survival instinct becomes a deciding factor.
So guys, if you are a mediocre my sincere wishes are always with you. You indeed will succeed in climbing the corporate ladder fast, and if you are an intellect you will be the BIGGEST failure!
Remember Dinosaurs ruled the Jurassic Park, and mediocres rule the IT parks!