10-02-2005, 05:15 AM
<b>Exceeding Expectation</b>
1)<b>Just Perfect</b>
To appear competent you have to live up to expectations. To be regarded as promising you must exceed them. This can be a daunting scenario, as each time you exceed expectations you raise the stakes for next time and begin constructing a spiral to insanity. Get a close to being perfect as you can and any thing you do thats's just very, very good could disappoint. That's not to say you should hide your ability and potential, but you must think sustainable.
2)<b>Manage People</b>
The secret of continuig to give satisfaction is understanding and managing the expectations of others. Those who always pleasant, efficient and punctual encourage others to expect that. At the other end of the spectrum are the lucky few who get away with being mostly brusque and careless. They convince the world their sporadic charm and competence is worth waiting for and only have to be polite or do something average to delight all.
3)<b>Impact Analysis</b>
The only practical way to create a sustainable illusion of being consistently outstanding while preserving your sanity, is to regularly practise subtle expectation lowering. maitain impact and credibilty by saving your flashes of brilliance for really important tasks, bearing in mind that routine duties sometimes go unrewarded. you are responsible for creating the expectations other have of you. Make sure those can be achieved by comfortably while leaving room for occasional excess.
<i>Source</i> Student Accountant-<i>March 2005</i>
Prays makes the Future
Ibri
http//www.ibrishah.4t.com
1)<b>Just Perfect</b>
To appear competent you have to live up to expectations. To be regarded as promising you must exceed them. This can be a daunting scenario, as each time you exceed expectations you raise the stakes for next time and begin constructing a spiral to insanity. Get a close to being perfect as you can and any thing you do thats's just very, very good could disappoint. That's not to say you should hide your ability and potential, but you must think sustainable.
2)<b>Manage People</b>
The secret of continuig to give satisfaction is understanding and managing the expectations of others. Those who always pleasant, efficient and punctual encourage others to expect that. At the other end of the spectrum are the lucky few who get away with being mostly brusque and careless. They convince the world their sporadic charm and competence is worth waiting for and only have to be polite or do something average to delight all.
3)<b>Impact Analysis</b>
The only practical way to create a sustainable illusion of being consistently outstanding while preserving your sanity, is to regularly practise subtle expectation lowering. maitain impact and credibilty by saving your flashes of brilliance for really important tasks, bearing in mind that routine duties sometimes go unrewarded. you are responsible for creating the expectations other have of you. Make sure those can be achieved by comfortably while leaving room for occasional excess.
<i>Source</i> Student Accountant-<i>March 2005</i>
Prays makes the Future
Ibri
http//www.ibrishah.4t.com
