In a consulting session today, the client from the public sector asked me, “What to do if my boss takes all the credit for the work that we do? We small people feel unappreciated as a result. Then we lose initiative and are not active. What can we do about it?”
I replied that they could do three things:
1. Think that you are not working for your boss but for yourself
2. Show off your talents and accomplishement wherever and whenever it is appropriate for examples in meetings, when with senior people who have interest in your work who have influence, and in front of your boss after completing a difficult job but that may appear simple.
3. Have an ambition. Now a CEO of a major bank, he started as a small staff in the government sector. He recalled that he never wrote the time 10 to 5 in the registration pad because he felt it was an insult to his ambition. He wanted to become a director general What was the meaing of 8 hours of work? He was working more for it and he didnot want overtime. Eventually this attitude made him DG for 10 years and no one could outperform him yet.
All the people in the public sector who rose from the small place, i saw had exhibited these three qualities.
Why not you?
