Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Work for Yourself While Working for Others

Is it moral, fair or ethical to work for yourself while getting paid by others?

The unpopular answer is positive. Well, it is not a non-conditional 'YES!' but still a 'yes'. As long as you make such a choice (to work for yourself), and you deal with the meanings of that choice, and you still deliver the necessary production you are expected to deliver, there is no harm in contributing for your career while helping others to become Millioners.

Moreover, from the beginning, you shall build your working-for-others system in a way it would make the most value added for your career at any time.

There is no better time to -
(a) talk to people you are working with on the day by day activities about a joint operation you might make together one day in the near future
(b) draw with colleagues you share long and serious working hours your future dreaming working place
(c) watch the news and get more knowledge about the environment your current organization is active in as well as neighbor environments
(d) access the Internet watching for terms and articles related directly and indirectly to your field of activity
(e) exchange ideas with other people from the your organization
(f) get to know better the customers of your organization, talk to them about their career and future plans
(g) plan
(h) think
(i) Socialize

There is a very good reason for you to start building your future immediately without waiting a single additional moment. And the reason is that simply THERE WOULD NEVER BE A BETTER TIME FOR THAT!

Actually the mutual sake of employees AND employers is to create and develop a constructive environment. Such an environment that would allow the worker to make, besides his formal activities he gets paid for, also the a to i above mentioned activities.

And this insight brings me to the most important lesson here: I am asking you to stop thinking like a worker but immediately start thinking like a Boss. Like always my mission is to raise important issues with effect to your future business activities. So the lesson in this article is not what you shall do as employee today, but what you should NOT do as employer tomorrow.

Remember, you should never -
(a) limit your workers in their fields of interest
(b) obsessively following their activities during breaks
(c) block their access for the Internet or news sites or public information resources
(d) ask them to avoid thinking and hoping
(e) to expect them not to plan their future
(f) avoid them from getting a promotion
(g) harm their professional development
(h) stop them from thinking
(i) stop them from socialize

Doing such things means a direct loss of revenues, profit and reputation.

At this stage I would like to go back to the first sentence in this article: I am not asking you to avoid doing the above actions because it is not moral, fair or ethical to treat your workers that way, but because it is STUPID.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It is pretty amazing...the way you put kind of obvious things in a new definition makes them look different