How to Get Ahead at Work - Without Kissing Butt!Written by Stephen Bucaro
----------------------------------------------------------- Permission is granted for below article to forward, reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website, offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as long as no changes are made and byline, copyright, and resource box below is included. ----------------------------------------------------------- How to Get Ahead at Work - Without Kissing Butt!By Stephen Bucaro Most people think that if they kiss bosses butt, boss will like them and they will have a secure job with good advancement. Wrong! To a business organization, an employee is just a tool, like a mop or shovel. When tool gets old or is no longer needed, it's out door without a flinch. If you kiss bosses butt, they may smile at you and talk nice to you, but in reality they're thinking you're weak and pitiful. They will not hesitate to give you crap assignments and use you as a fall guy for their mistakes. You can have a secure job with good advancement - and keep your self-respect if you follow rules below. - In business organizations, people gather into "clicks". A click is a group of employees organized for purpose of covering each others butt. This allows each member of a click to pass blame for their mistakes onto other click. In end, one click successfully destroys chances for advancement of members of other click. (Or gets other click tossed out of company entirely). Never join a click. Always claim to be a devoted subject of managers so high in organization that most of employees don't have access to them. Always claim to be dedicated to "what's best for company". Avoid taking sides in any issue that clicks are doing battle over. By taking a side, you will be joining a click. There is no sure way to tell which click will win in end. The click that seems to be winning today could get caught in a big screw-up tomorrow, and be out door. Never join a click. - Never associate with co-workers or your boss outside of work. If you associate with a co-worker outside of work, you will be joining that co-workers click by default. If you associate with your boss outside of work, in order to avoid accusations of favoritism, your boss will be forced to give you crap assignments. Keep your work associations and your after work relationships completely separate. - Never bad-mouth a co-worker or a boss. No matter how private you think a conversation is, it WILL get out. And when it does - you will have joined a click. The fact is, you don't need to bad-mouth a co-worker or a boss. Although it may not seem like it, everybody already knows who big screw-ups in company are. - Always bad-mouth everybody and everything outside company. Bad-mouth suppliers. Bad-mouth contractors. Bad-mouth consultants. Bad-mouth government. Bad-mouth everything outside company. That's right - company's problems are not caused by stupid lazy employees and managers. All company's problems are caused by things outside company. => Get ahead by taking initiative and volunteering for assignments nobody else wants - Wrong! - In every company there are certain assignments that do not lead to advancement. The crap assignments. They are boring with low visibility or little chance of success. Then there are other assignments that are exciting, involve gaining more skills, have high visibility and a good chance of success. These are "glory" assignments.
| | The 7 Top Ways Millionaires Become WealthyWritten by Steven Mattos
There are 7 common factors to those who build net fortunes of one million dollars or more. In America, there has never been more personal wealth than there is today; yet most American's are not wealthy. Amazingly, a mere 3.5% of our households own almost one-half of wealth in United States! Although we may be hard working, educated, moderate to high-income earners, why are so few of us affluent? In studying affluent, I found a pattern that wealthy follow. It is more often result of planning, hard work, perseverance, and self-discipline that determines who become wealthy. The factors compiled here are summarized from research done by Thomas Stanley Ph.D. on over 1100 actual millionaires (many are multi-millionaires) in U.S. today. You can do these! 1) Live Well Below Your Means Don't be fooled. The 'average' millionaire doesn't look like a millionaire! The key word here is frugal, frugal, and frugal. The typical person is America is a consumptionist. It's in our blood. We work hard, make money, and spend it well. Not typical millionaire! They play great defense (saving and investing) as well as offense (making money). Just like in football - great offense is exciting…but great defense wins games. An interesting note: Millionaires on average claimed their spouses were as frugal or more than they were. It's a family affair: Sacrifice high consumption today, for financial freedom tomorrow. 2) Spend Your Time, Energy, and Money in Ways that Build Wealth. Although road to Millionaire's Ville takes a frugal path, they pay well for training and advice. Do investment planning. Go to seminars. Hire good attorneys, tax accountants, mentors and coaches. Learn to identify and invest in assets that produce income. The wealthy spend money when investment will protect and grow their assets. Millionaires also know details: How much is spent each month and on food, clothing, and shelter. The non-wealthy say they don't have time to plan, while wealthy make time to plan. But here's shocker: The average millionaire spends 8.5 hours per month planning, while non-affluent spend 4.5 hours or less planning. How can 4 more hours per week impact your future? Make it happen and odds are in your favor of joining truly wealthy!3) Choose Financial Independence over Displaying High Social Status The wealthy run highly efficient operations both in business and at home. Most live in average neighborhoods, and drive average cars. They're not interested in keeping up with Jones' - because Jones' aren't financially free. It takes lots of energy to consume big mortgages, change homes every few years, buy most recent model cars, and wear latest fashions. The wealthy drive typically American made cars! Japanese cars come in 2nd place; half of these are Toyota Camrys. Yes, significant value per dollar is key here. The Millionaire's Motto: You aren't what you drive. The status cars - Lexus, BMW's, Mercedes? At 6.4% or less per each brand. 4) Don't Accept Economic Support from Your Parents once Outside Home Sounds painful doesn't it? It's a fact that has taught wealthy how to earn, keep, and invest money. Parents of wealthy do not, or cannot, provide "economic outpatient care". The results are clear: The more dollars adult children receive, fewer they accumulate. Those who are given less are motivated to accumulate more on their own merits. An amazing fact: 80% of millionaires are first generation millionaires; they have made their money on their own, in their lifetime. Many of these folks have been immigrants to U.S., starting out with minimal cash on hand. Work hard to learn and generate wealth-it CAN be done, and happens in America every day.
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