That Was a Close One
There are good mistakes and there are bad mistakes, which if you think about some of your exes and previous jobs, some of you can surely attest to. Ah...reflection and hindsight. I'll use inBubbleGuy as an example of both. The good mistake was a couple weeks ago. Two days before an offer was supposed to run, a sponsor rescheduled the promo. iBGuy, without a backup for that day, had to get creative. This turned into the Friday blowout where he gave away two books and made you promise to give one to someone else. We broke a comment record that day, seemingly recharging our lovely community. The mistake was to not have a backup plan, but it turned out to be a good thing - a good mistake. Before we get to the BAD!!!!! mistake, the reason we are talking about this is because Glen Shepard says that "Learning the right way to make mistakes" is one of 18 ways to becoming an indispensable employee. This from his latest eBook How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without.
Now for the bad mistake, and when I say bad, I mean near colossal blunder bad. Remember the Free Prize Inside the Free Prize Inside Offer. Of course you do, and you're wondering where your prizes are. Well, we ran the offer, then ran the follow-up special sale, and then ordered the 500 plus copies (they had to all be ordered at once for some reason). Well, we waited for them to arrive...and finally last Monday, they showed up. But, wouldn't you know it, the 250 copies that iBGuy was giving away, well, they simply weren't there. When he called his rep, iBGuy was told that the remaining cereal box copies had already been scrapped and destroyed. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! The office spent the next four to five hours trying to decide how to make up for this, this, this, major let down to you lovely readers, when all of the sudden, the rep called. Let's just say she went WAAAAYYY above and beyond the call of duty to save inBubbleGuy's tooshy. She somehow managed to find the only 252 copies in existence. Shewwww. The books shipped to you fine readers yesterday. Regardless, that was one of iBGuy's most obvious and simply ridiculous mistakes (please make him feel better by commenting on some of your own mistakes).
In Glen Shepard's previous books, he showed managers how to get the most out of their workforce. Now, he's shifting to the other end of the spectrum by giving us employees an actionable guide explaining what managers are really looking for in there employees. It doesn't matter what field you are in, how large your company is, whether it is for profit or not, these are common sense principles that will work for anyone interested in being the real Go-To-Guy or Gal.
One of the most important things that can be taken from this eBook (of which 20 of you will win) is that it takes more than being exceptional in one particular area. How many of you work your but off but don't feel like it is being recognized? Perhaps you are not "learning how to make the right mistakes." Effort doesn't always translate into success or recognition. It has to be the right kind of effort. Perhaps you never "answered the one question that will immediately make you a highly valued employee." If you follow all of Shepard's 18 principles, your hard work and determination will combine with other skills that are sure to impress your employer, making it much more likely that the next promotion is sure to be yours. Good luck!!
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