The, Rules of Work, 4th Edition

Foreword

Most of us (I’m guessing here) want to do our jobs well. Most of us (still guessing) want more important jobs, bigger salaries, greater security, higher status and a bright future. So we try to do our jobs so well that we will be rewarded, respected and promoted.

And that is where we go wrong (I’m not guessing any more).

Of course we have to do our jobs really well. There’s no future for the bungler, the layabout or the sociopath. But Richard Templar puts his finger on the flaw in the implied logic that concludes that the better we do our job the faster we will rise up the organization. He points out that we are all doing two jobs, but most of us are only conscious of one of them – the job in hand: meeting our sales targets, reducing ...