You and your job
“The role of a manager should be to ensure that those that work for him/her eventually leave and go onto bigger and better things” Mark Plant
If you are unhappy in your job – leave and if you aren’t excited about work every morning – stop whatever you’re doing and do something else.
This is what we need to live by.
If you aren’t being challenged in your job – leave.
If you are cruising in your current work – leave.
If you aren’t sweating it at present and feeling under pressure – leave.
If you think you understand everything that you are doing where you are currently working – leave.
If you aren’t failing enough – leave and go find somewhere where you fail before you succeed. When you find yourself succeeding too often – leave again.
If you think you are successful – leave and find something or somewhere where you aren’t. When you become successful again – leave again.
If everyone likes you and wants to work with you – leave and go work somewhere where they don’t (and then get them to want to).
If your work is winning awards and it feels like you win most pitches – leave and go somewhere where no one has won anything and there is a low rate of success at pitches. Help them turn it around.
If you think you know a product inside out – leave and go find a product that you don’t.
If you think you understand the value of all your influences and feel that you have challenged them from all the directions you can find – leave and go find somewhere where there are different (or unheard of) influences that maybe you don’t even understand why they are influences.
If your manager is not influencing you to ultimately leave and go onto bigger and better things – leave.
If someone is standing in the way of your progress (either internally or externally) – leave.
If someone is trying to make you stay in your job – leave.
If your manager is trying to make you stay, they aren’t a good manager – leave.
If the days go too smoothly and there is too much time for idle chatter (or you are surrounded by people with too much time for idle chatter) – leave.
If you don’t work with people who put the same amount of thought and effort into teamwork and collaboration as you do – leave and find people who do.
If there is a culture of persuading people to stay in their jobs by offering them more money – leave.
If where you work there is a business culture of holding on to people to prevent them working for competitors – leave.
If where you work there is a business culture of trying to make competitors fail – leave.
If there isn’t a culture (or understanding) of creating working relationships between the right people and that not everyone works well together – leave.
And if in this work culture there is not the understanding that a certain degree of tension between these great working relationships produces greater work – leave.
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