Other People’s Success
The last sentence on last week’s post caused a reaction: I was listing a few problems faced by affluent children, and said that it was another example of how success can cause problems if it’s not managed properly. But it was their parents (or earlier generations) that were successful, so some thought it wasn’t a good example of a success trap.
True enough; but there are similarities in the corporate world. For example, what if you got transferred to a division that has been the star performer for years; don’t you think you’d be affected by that success even if you didn’t personally contribute to it?
Managers in those circumstances feel the pressure of having to keep up the same rate of performance or be branded as the ones who broke the winning record.
What if you found that the high performance was attained at the expense of long term financial health and/or practices detrimental to the environment or employees’ well being? What if these practices could continue for a few years yet before things start unraveling, giving you enough time to get a big promotion?
You’d have important decisions to make, decisions that would impact you personally, and all caused by other people’s success.
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