The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace: Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, and Will Make You Happier

Chapter 2

Your Future Potential

Growth in any company requires employees and leaders to challenge themselves to grow and call one another up to greatness. Yet Future Potential is something that almost no one is measuring. We spend most of our time measuring what we did in the past and trying to survive the present. When I go out on speaking tours, people often tell me that their jobs have become too big. They are expected to produce more results with fewer resources: fewer people, smaller budgets, less time. If this is not true in your job today, it will almost certainly be true in the future. However, these arguments about performance, efforts to explain why performing to expectations is increasingly difficult in current circumstances, only ...