if you work for an Asshole ?
From FT Lucy KellawayEvery modern management expert will tell you that CEOs who are arseholes no longer survive. The most successful leaders are supposed to be the humble ones, who listen and take people with them. Mr Armstrong is living proof that this is nonsense. If you enrich your shareholders — which you tend to do if you are hell-bent on succeeding — you can be as nice or as nasty as you like.
Of course assholes can win. In fact these days it doesn't matter if you are a jerk to your internal staff. If you are a jerk for the public that might hurt your image and the brand of your company.
But as Lucy Kellaway said you have to deliver results and in this world in many businesses people are easily replaced. The power of the employee is coming down big time. The automation and the excess supply of people make it easy to replace anyone.
The only way to be treated decently is to be unique and to be unique you can't be easily replaced.
4 tips
1.Know something no one knows
2.Know a lot about something vs a bit of everything
3.study everyday forever
4.Be a people person, these are the most difficult to replace
From the Economist
Highly skilled work, on the other hand, has become increasingly concentrated in jobs requiring complex cognitive or interpersonal tasks: managing a business, developing a new product or advising patients. As non-routine work has become more prized, supply and demand in the labour market have become increasingly unbalanced. Many cognitively complex jobs are beyond the abilities even of people with reasonable qualifications. The wage premium for college graduates has held steady in recent decades, but that is mainly because of the rising premium earned by holders of advanced degrees. The resulting competition for lower-level work has depressed wage growth, leading to stagnant pay for typical workers.Technology has created a growing reservoir of less-skilled labour while simultaneously expanding the range of tasks that can be automated. Most workers are therefore being forced into competition both against each other and against machines. No wonder their share of the economic pie has got smaller, in developing economies as well as in the rich world.
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