Brilliant ideas

Introduction

 1.   Face it, you are you and they are them
Take a positive, practical but sceptical attitude to your organisation. Don’t expect to spend your whole career in one organisation and don’t trip over internal politics.

 2.   Don’t bury them in advice
To have a successful career, good managers need to build a reputation for breeding good people. They lead confident teams, limit the amount of advice they give and help their people solve their own problems.

 3.   Make good suggestions loudly
At any point in the chaos that describes your organisation, an opportunity can arise for you to make a sensible suggestion to the powers that be. Career people should grab such opportunities and actively seek them out.

 4.   Don’t come to me with your problems
When does a member of a team get their boss involved in a situation? Answer: when there’s a problem.