The Bottom Line…
This arrived in my inbox recently from a friend who is also a self-employed system and network consultant. After a good chuckle, I sobered quickly as I realized how true this actually is. Even with a couple of college degrees and 20 years of big corporate experience prior to the entrepreneuring, 17 years of rowing my own boat basically disqualifies me from every known job. Guess I’ll just have to keep on keeping on…
Some people are simply not employable. They’re called small business owners.
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There’s no one quite as unwelcome as the employee who may know more than his boss. The big corporates foster managerial fearfulness as it is. So the focus becomes less on being right, and more on not being able to be proved wrong.
Quite right, J. Alva. Though my 20 years of corporate experience was very good to me in many many ways, I never really fit the mold which required everything be done with CYA as the number one measure of success…
There’s also a quality of deterring prosperity. It keeps people cut off from making contributions where there are existing economies of scale. Small “d” democratic workplace management tends to be more pragmatic about hires. As a fringe benefit, it eliminates ass kissing, the sight of which is terribly demoralizing!