Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.
You have to trust the people who work with you and hire, but also listen to as many smart people as you can.
Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.
I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.
When it's all about the work, it's clear who in the company is pulling their weight and who isn't.
There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!
Too often, people get jobs based on who they know - not what they know.
As far as I'm concerned, any work you get is because people have heard other work you've done.
There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.