In yesterday's post, I included the Peter Principle as an example of one of those natural laws that people notice. I like this principle and decided to expand on it a bit.
Now you're cutting the edges. There's more detail here and you need to pay closer attention to measurements and the like. But still, you're good at it and enjoy using your hands. You start to notice how the different size widgets work together. Being mechanically inclined you see opportunities to make product better. This works and your manager is impressed and promotes you.
As the supervisor for the team creating these new widgets, you still get to work with your hands. You enjoy teaching the members of your team the best way to do what they do and working out the bugs in the new product. Now, however, you do have to deal with managing people. You don't really enjoy that aspect of it, but it's a necessary evil of the job. Your team has the highest production numbers of the company and the front office is impressed and promotes you.
Unfortunately now your a manger. You took the job because it feels good to be recognized. That and the money was good and you like being able to provide well for your family. You also wanted the chance to continue your work on a larger scale. However, gone are the days of working with your hands. The only think you touch anymore is a computer keyboard. You're in meetings most of the day, people management is all you do plus all the financials which just scare you. You work hard, but only do an average job since you're now outside your true area of expertise. The company owner notices and decides not to promote you.
You've now reached the level of your incompetence. You don't do poorly, but you no longer shine. The work you now do involves a new set of skills which don't match the ones that got you here. You'd have been better off as a worker or supervisor, but now it's too late. Companies rarely have mechanisms in place to put you back into a job where you were the most fulfills and productive and even if they did you'd be seen as a failure.
The lesson here is to actively learn who God has made you to be. What are your skills? How do you think about things? What makes you feel fulfilled. God has created you in such a way that you have a place, a niche. The goal is to find fulfillment there, and not in moving into areas outside what God has created you to do.
Peter PrincipleThe principle works like this. Say you get a job at a company making widgets. Your job is just to drill the hold at the center. Simple as it is, you find you like your job. You like working with your hands and do good, precision work. Your supervisor notices this and promotes you.
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Now you're cutting the edges. There's more detail here and you need to pay closer attention to measurements and the like. But still, you're good at it and enjoy using your hands. You start to notice how the different size widgets work together. Being mechanically inclined you see opportunities to make product better. This works and your manager is impressed and promotes you.
As the supervisor for the team creating these new widgets, you still get to work with your hands. You enjoy teaching the members of your team the best way to do what they do and working out the bugs in the new product. Now, however, you do have to deal with managing people. You don't really enjoy that aspect of it, but it's a necessary evil of the job. Your team has the highest production numbers of the company and the front office is impressed and promotes you.
Unfortunately now your a manger. You took the job because it feels good to be recognized. That and the money was good and you like being able to provide well for your family. You also wanted the chance to continue your work on a larger scale. However, gone are the days of working with your hands. The only think you touch anymore is a computer keyboard. You're in meetings most of the day, people management is all you do plus all the financials which just scare you. You work hard, but only do an average job since you're now outside your true area of expertise. The company owner notices and decides not to promote you.
You've now reached the level of your incompetence. You don't do poorly, but you no longer shine. The work you now do involves a new set of skills which don't match the ones that got you here. You'd have been better off as a worker or supervisor, but now it's too late. Companies rarely have mechanisms in place to put you back into a job where you were the most fulfills and productive and even if they did you'd be seen as a failure.
The lesson here is to actively learn who God has made you to be. What are your skills? How do you think about things? What makes you feel fulfilled. God has created you in such a way that you have a place, a niche. The goal is to find fulfillment there, and not in moving into areas outside what God has created you to do.
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