In today's highly competitive workplace, most leaders demand employee loyalty. Therefore, many people in the workplace are very loyal or absolutely loyal to the enterprise. They try their best to do their work well. Besides, they never consider other extra jobs, so they work day after day, doing the same job and getting the same salary. Therefore, his life has been very busy. Such employees are standard loyal employees, but often such employees are not favored by leaders. Why? For every company or enterprise, it is for profit, and it is hoped that employees can continuously improve their abilities and make greater contributions to the company or enterprise; In other words, companies or enterprises also hope that employees have certain ambitions and achieve a win-win situation. Therefore, in the workplace, an employee who is loyal to his life is doomed to fail.
For many years, "ambition" has been a derogatory term. However, since soldiers who don't want to be generals are not good soldiers, a life without ambition will never have a successful career life.
We live in an era of infinite possibilities: geographical and ideological barriers gradually disappear, the market is becoming more and more open, and commodity ideas and funds flow freely around the world, making enterprises everywhere more and more efficient. New technologies are creating important new channels for business and communication. No matter in personal life or at work, never before have so many people had so many opportunities for innovation.
However, this era is also a dangerous era. Since Adam Smith, we believe that the progress of technology will bring wealth to every corner of society, but this is not the case. The dual forces of market opening and technology popularization are reconstructing all industrial maps at an alarming rate. The era of technological change is also an era when the economic and social order is disrupted. We should observe how wealth is generated and distributed in such an era, and whether we make effective use of this opportunity.
In this era, for people in the workplace, there is no outstanding achievement without ambition. In order to measure the success rate of any innovation, some leaders will ask employees such questions: "What kind of vision do you have for the future of the enterprise? Do you have the desire to change enterprise management or technology? " In fact, such questions are exactly what leaders use to measure employees' ambitions. Everyone has a great dream. A great vision is not only the ability to make major changes, but also the promotion of energy and inspiration. To some extent, it is not only of great help to the development of enterprises, but also the starting point for their own success!
Xiao B, a technology application manager in a small company in high-tech industry, with a master's degree in related fields, has worked in the company for 5 years. He is also a small leader of the company with a good salary. However, he feels that he can't do it here, and he really wants to change his job for a change. Why?
It turns out that his technology application manager is just a title, and the company is small and sophisticated. The so-called technology application manager has one or two assistants under him, and what he has to do every day is not too "technical", that is, waiting for customers' calls, being on standby and serving at any time. After all, although it is a high-tech industry, as a technology application manager, he keeps answering the phone and then replaces the damaged circuit board for the customer's machine. Besides, he has been doing this job for three years. After working for about two years, he already feels that he can't learn anything new at all. Not only did he not make progress and improve, but his work was all repetitive!
Xiao B also realized that this was not possible. He once went to other companies for resume interviews through professional recruitment or interpersonal relationships during the peak job-hopping period every year. However, there is always a problem before him. He has worked for five years. At this time, job-hopping is really "high or low." On the one hand, he has higher requirements for the job and salary of the next company. Many companies' Offer or jobs can't reach a certain "level", sometimes the work is very challenging and the salary can't reach the original standard; On the other hand, more often, he doesn't have enough confidence in his work ability and skills. Afraid of risks, content with the status quo, worried about their incompetence, dare not quit easily.
After so many delays, the idea of job-hopping has always existed, but he is always worried that he will not find a job with such a decent and comfortable salary after leaving his job. Sometimes he regrets that his favorite company has never extended an olive branch to him, so he thinks it's better to wait and see. In this way, little B looked around and found nothing in the end. In the face of a seemingly good job, Xiao B himself is in great pain. He realized that if he went on like this, he would be like a frog in warm water, repeating it every day, and maybe he could only stay in his original company for euthanasia.
In fact, the superficial relaxed and stable salary masked the decline of personal professional core competitiveness, until one day I found that this job was really impossible, completely tired, and suddenly lost my stable job, only to regret it.
Many people know such an experiment: throw a frog into boiling water, and under the immediate strong stimulation, the frog can quickly jump out and escape from death; However, if you cook the frog slowly in warm water, it will not escape when danger comes. ...
Although this case can give us a strong education, in fact, there are a large number of "frogs" with the same fate all the time around us-they gradually strengthen their numb nerves and become numb to "pressure" in their familiar work day after day, and they always seem to lack motivation. In a sense, if a worker keeps doing this, he is likely to be like a frog in warm water-waiting for euthanasia.
In the workplace, people with "ambition" will achieve something in constant pursuit, while those without "ambition" will spend their lives in mediocrity. What is the basis of "ambition"? Why are some people full of "ambition" and vitality when dealing with their careers, while others are not?
Time magazine mentioned that Dean Mante, a psychologist at the University of California, found that "ambition" is the driving force of human behavior. People with "ambition" can have the power to grab more resources. Of course, it must be admitted that "ambition" is a "zero-sum game" to some extent: the more resources you occupy, the fewer others there are. According to this statement, everyone should have "ambition". But in fact, there are great differences in ambition between people.
These differences have attracted the attention of anthropologists, psychologists and other scholars, who try to find answers from family background, social influence, genetic and individual differences.
From the perspective of family background, if a child is born in a poor family, he will worry about the survival problem and may be born with "ambition", but those who are pessimistic and disappointed and do not make progress are not excluded. Children who grow up in wealthy families can get a lot of things from childhood, but there are also lazy and profligate people. In a word, the research shows that the main reason why a considerable proportion of people in the upper class have "ambitions" is not money, but family influence and parents' indoctrination of their children's concept of success.
The social environment in which we live also has a great influence on people's "aspirations". This is somewhat similar to family, that is, when a person is in contact with the social environment, if he always meets people with "ambitions", he will involuntarily have some desires to do something; If he is surrounded by people who have no ideals, "ambitions" and are absolutely "loyal" to the enterprise, he will be ridiculed as a madman even if he has "ambitions". As time goes on, his ambition will be erased.
On the issue of "ambition", how to promote career progress without harming the interests of others and their own health is to maintain moderation.
In the workplace, if you want to do a good job, you must have "ambition" and not be absolutely loyal to a company. When it comes to job-hopping, you must seize the opportunity to achieve yourself, and don't let "loyalty" harm your life. Because from a certain perspective, a lifetime of loyalty is a lifetime of failure. Have a good vision for the future and try it whenever possible, so as to develop yourself better.
However, if this "ambition" is based on poaching other people's resources, or if we can benefit ourselves by hurting others, then we should control this "ambition" and put it within the scope of moral and legal provisions. In addition, to guide "ambition", in a "zero-sum" environment, if you have more, there will be fewer others, so "ambition" is often unpopular with others. Nowadays, the rapidly developing society has created a win-win model, and your "ambition" is indeed indispensable for opening up territory and exploring future fields. There, people with "ambitions" are successful people.
But if there are too many "ambitions", the psychological burden will be great. When reality can't meet the requirements of self, it will produce anxiety, irritability, hostility and opposition, which will affect interpersonal relationships and external environment externally and endanger personal health internally.
There is no end to "ambition". We should know how to adjust it within a suitable limit so that it can give full play to its inspiring role without hurting people.
It doesn't matter that you haven't succeeded for the time being, that you have no status or wealth. As long as you have ambition, wisdom and perseverance to carry it through, standing at the top of the pyramid is just around the corner.
Everyone's life is like a pyramid. Only by climbing up can you enjoy the greatest freedom and space.
Some people are mediocre, wandering in the old place all their lives, while others climb from E floor to C floor step by step. Only a few people can quickly climb to the next floor, rank among the winners and enjoy the peak scenery.
However, in today's real life, there are so many talents in big cities that it is hard to find jobs. In order to survive, employment before choosing a job has become the first choice. However, after working for a period of time, I have got used to my present job. Although work is not my real interest, I always feel that I have adapted to the existing working environment, and people's instinctive inertia has stranded the pace of choosing a job. Missed a good opportunity to choose a job and jump ship. I think my present job will continue. Work is just a generous salary and a relaxed working environment, which makes many people in the workplace who have been engaged in any value-added work work mechanically, or are busy at ordinary times, ignoring the improvement of their professional ability. People who are content with the status quo and are used to their own work mode often have little improvement in their ability at work. "One day, a monk bumps into a bell," and they don't charge themselves in time and make a good career plan. Only when they were finally eliminated by the market did they know that they were in a predicament of unemployment. ...
No matter what kind of job or post you are in, you must have a certain sense of professionalism, crisis and competition, adjust yourself in time, improve yourself and accumulate wealth in order to cope with all kinds of challenges in life. In particular, we should always pay attention to our career planning, be good at keeping our ideals consistent with the goals of career planning, and never be a frog in warm water, waiting for the arrival of euthanasia in the workplace.
The workplace is the main battlefield of life. No one can be complacent in this battlefield. Only by surpassing ourselves can we hope to win the favor of opportunities and succeed. This is also a fact. A loyal life is also a failed life. Loyalty and failure are opposites.