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How to get promoted

November 20, 2019

[0:25] So how do you go about getting promoted?[0:30] That’s a good one. A nice starting question.[0:34] Let’s let’s give this a little shape. I see a differentiator between minimum.You want to get promoted internally and you wanna go promoted externally.Yeah. It’s only like you just quit the job and Great, um, maybe we go four for internal one first. Yeah, let’s do internal first. I think most people are more focused on that.Um, it’s very difficult to jump from one company to a different one. So let’s do internal for stuff. Yeah, Yeah.So internal. Um, assumption.Um, you have a job, and you’re good in the job.And your boss agrees that you’re good in the job we’re not talking about. You are the genius in the job, and your boss is like, Oh, my goodness. Yes. Person.Um, So then my recommendation is.[1:26] Wait until they promote you, huh?[1:32] Right, So But there’s also, you know, you know, a school of thought that says, Well, if I have a manager who’s under me and he’s doing perfectly fine,there’s another available position.[1:50] You know, in English, we say don’t rock the boat. So why would you take that manager from that specific sector?Promote him? You don’t know how well he’s going to do in a different field with a different team, and at the same time you’re gonna in balance, you’re gonna cause an imbalance to the structure under you.So wouldn’t it make more sense to find someone from outside of the company who already deals with that position?And that way, at least you know that the structure underneath you is going to keep working efficiently. So what would you say to that way? Open one can of worms after the other. So what do I tell you? What? What do I tell you for this one?This is a ridiculously selfish thought, which I can see out there everywhere.Right. And the result is this You have new manager on board on this position, whom you don’t know if this guy was a good sales guy than in the interview. He just convinced you, and then you have him there.Right? Um, this is number one. So you have somebody who doesn’t know the organization who doesn’t even know where the toilets are.And you have a new best enemy, which is the guy who was looking at the port of this position.That is correct. So I I understand that a lot off managers, well.[3:11] I don’t know good managers who act like that. I know people, the people that I know, that that that a really successful they try to promote within the organization.Yes, to keep all the knowledge in the organization and then if that is not successful, are there’s nobody there. Then they go get fresh blood from the outside or they say, OK, I have three people who want to do this.But guys, we got to talk. You are not there yet. I’m hiring somebody else from the outside because of this. That the other reason. So play this open.Let’s go back to the initial one. How to get promoted internally when I say Wait until you get promoted and this is not a passive waiting, Okay.[3:50] It’s not complicated to get promoted, so I think the sender’s need some space. Yes, if you do it smart.So smart means first, who promotes you?[4:04] It’s not the organization that promotes its people. Organizations don’t exist. It’s just a fake word where we can blame somebody but and not take and avoid responsibility.It was the organization who didn’t know it wasn’t.It was a person. Some person scientists letter.Okay, so you need to know who is responsible for your promotion.This is the first thing. That’s a good point. Usually people believe Now, that’s my boss. That’s easy.I say, No. I haven’t seen an organization at all in all of my 20 years of the career with th...