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How to Succeed in Your Work
There are many aspects to following a successful career. They are mostly derived from
two characteristics of personality: ability and application. A person with much ability
has an easier time than another who is less able but the individual with less ability can
also succeed through greater application.
Ability covers a person’s capacity to solve problems by logical means. This has been
called intelligence. However, just being clever is not sufficient to ensure career success.
Intelligence must be balanced with personality: how a person behaves in a particular
situation – whether a leader or a follower, diplomatic or forthright, assertive or
sociable, formal or relaxed, decisive or hesitant. All of these characteristics will
contribute to the ease with which a person can fit into an organisation.
Application is related to how hard a person tries. Physical fitness can be defined in
terms of strength, stamina, suppleness, skill and psychological drive or determination.
So it is with fitness to succeed in employment. The psychological drive is the will to
succeed. Skill comes from knowing the rules and practising them to a level of
competence. Suppleness is the flexibility to survive in changing situations. Stamina
means perseverance through the tough times, when dealing with difficult situations or
temperamental colleagues. Strength is acquired by training and it does not come easily.
Application means applying all of these characteristics in the context of employment.
This collection of work-connected articles covers a wide range of the tools necessary to
get employment, to do a good job and to progress. As a tradesperson needs first to know
his tools and then to practice with them, so administrative skills are not gained in a moment.
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand”. So this
compendium contains some tools. They are not to be learned parrot-fashion, but applied
thoughtfully and critically because circumstances change and not every tool can be used
in the same way in every situation.
These guidelines are intended to help you and your colleagues avoid some pitfalls and to
be able to do better what you may already do well.
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