When to Let Sloppiness Slide
Newly Corporate is a member of the US News and World Report Career Blog Network “Outside Voices“. Each of the authors here at Newly Corporate post on the blog in a rotating schedule, one post total each week. Here is this week’s post:
I had a pointed moment of clarity last week. I finally realized why all of my great ideas at work were falling upon deaf ears. I have been making lots of process improvement recommendations lately to help our team (and its several new members) operate more efficiently. In my previous role at a huge manufacturing company, managers ate up this kind of stuff. But for some reason, it was being met with total and utter indifference in my new job.
The problem, you see, is that I failed to recognize the difference in the two companies and their managers. My new job is in a growing market, where sales is all that matters. Sure, it would be nice to clean up the back office, but nothing should get in the way of sales efforts. If I’m training new hires or standardizing our product delivery methods, I’m taking away from valuable selling time. This means even tremendous process improvement ideas are essentially useless.
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