If you’re doing the job you were hired to do, you’re doing it wrong
Here’s a different way to think about your job
Here’s a contrarian thought : your boss doesn’t know what your job entails. She thinks she does, but she doesn’t, really.
What you are hired to do is bring results.
Results aren’t how many sales leads you’re driving to the company.
Real results, results that matter, fall into these 3 buckets :
1) Are you helping the company make money
2) Are you helping the company save money
3) Are you making people’s lives happier/easier within the company
So really, the reason you were hired is to contribute to one, or to multiple of the above.
Your job description is your boss’s way of seeing how you can achieve those.
But if you REALLY want to leapfrog your career, you need to stop thinking like an employee and start thinking like a CEO.
Not in a braggy, I-can-do-this-better-than-you kind of way, but in a let’s- problem-solve-and-see-if-the-way-you-expect-me-to-contribute-is-truly-the- best-way kind of way.
I’m saying this because business is changing VERY quickly, and the way companies think about growing isn’t a…
