“Important” workers also love jargon. Can’t get enough of it. The more modern jargon you can infuse into your workplace utterances, the more intelligent you’ll appear. You have to use words like “synergy” and “workflow” and “action items” and “deliverables.” You gotta know how to spin like a top: when the boss asks you why you haven’t turned in your project yet, you spin him a long web of jargon. He’ll either get confused or bored, or will find your answer satisfactory enough. You can also solemnly say things like “I accept responsibility for that,” which makes you seem like a real honest guy, and gets you out of any punishments, since you’ve already owned up to your mistakes.
Next: be an enjoyable person to be around. Be very attractive if you can be. You’re gonna need magnetism to succeed in this world. And if you’re fun to be around, it does not matter what your work outputs look like.
A common mistake that young people make in the workplace is just putting their heads down and getting done every single task, failing to ever make alliances with their coworkers. Resist the temptation! Network instead. Networking just basically means talking to your coworkers or clients, and following up on basic things. Maybe ask people about their hobbies. Then, when you see so-and-so from accounting, you can ask, “How’d that pickleball match go?” And there you go, an instant, longlasting connection, all because you cared about a person and remembered something they liked.
In this person’s case, they’ll have to carry out a meeting they’re nervous about…
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