Understanding how marketable you are is important for two reasons: it gives you an idea of what you could bring to any new job (mostly soft skills), and it also assesses what your chances are to get a job like your old one back (primarily, job or industry specific experiences and competencies).
When you’re capable, and say ‘yes’ all the time, it’s easy to give the impression that you have bandwidth and are a team player. Saying ‘no’ doesn’t negate your capability or the team player impressions, just that you don’t have the bandwidth to handle more work to at your normal quality level.
Typically, people who lie keep their lies a secret. So in your case, was it that he thought you didn’t know that he was lying?
As you go up the ladder, you often have to change peer-friend relations to manager-subordinate relations… According to a recent Gallup poll, 75% of workers who left their jobs did so because of their bosses, not the position itself. Hence, the stakes are high for you, and you don’t want your peer-friends to become unfriendly.
…after the first day my manager told me to stop posting because some senior manager had seen my Instagram posts and was not pleased. I guess I looked like I was having too much fun…
For a first-time manager managing others can be difficult because how she got to a managerial position was based on managing herself to achieve individual excellence. However, what is required of her now is team excellence: she has to manage a set of people to perform to excellence. The transition from me- to we-focused isn’t natural for everyone.
Hey Morris, … often I have an important decision that needs to be made and it urgently needs her input but she takes a long time to get back, sometimes not at all, even when I repeat my request. This really stresses me out.
It’s nearly impossible to fix a situation when there’s a big misalignment in values because the other parties can’t possibly comprehend your values in the same way that you can’t comprehend theirs. Getting people to change is hard, so you need a different approach.
When executives only focus on the achievement of targets, the purpose of a company can become seemingly detached from the business.
Hey Morris 