Your Job Is A Game Make Your Opponents External

“Your Job is a Game: Make Your Opponents External”

Communication

Jack Canfield, Co-author, along with Mark Victor Hasen, of “Chicken Soup for the Soul”

A Lesson from Heller Ehrman

Real competition is external

The Slices of the Pie are Unlimited

Wallace D. Wattles

ALL JOBS ARE GAMES

Your ability to play the game will determine your success or failure.

GAMES CONSIST OF:

Rules

Barriers

Freedoms

RULES

When to be at work

How the work is done

Required number of completed tasks (or “points”)

FREEDOMS AND BARRIERS

Things you can do! Things you can’t!

Freedoms Barriers

THE OPPONENT

The most significant part of any game is the presence of an opponent.

Organizations have opponents who are internal and external.

EXTERNAL OPPONENTS MOTIVATE!

VS.

EXTERNAL OPPONENTS MOTIVATE!

VS.

INTERNAL OPPONENTS

“Two is company and three is a crowd.”

INTERNAL OPPONENTS

Two people often collaborate better than a group of three people.

Two people may come together, excluding the third person.

General Electric ranks its employees:-Those in the bottom 10 percent have 1

year to rise or they are fired.-This ensures that underperformers are excluded from the team.

HOW CAN YOU AVOID INTERNAL OPPONENTS?

Do not imagine the people you are working with as opponents, but rather look at them asteam members.

Externalize the opponent.

Ensure that you are playing by your company’s rules and are always seen as part of the team.

If you are not, you will find very quickly that the team is against you.

BE A TEAM PLAYER! When interviewing, Stress that you are a team

player.

When doing a job, ensure you are winning for your team.

Be an asset.

Be public about helping the team.

Never speak negatively about your team

HOW CAN YOU BE AN ASSET?

Employment stability is very important.The best workers are the people who have the most stability.

WHAT DOES A STABLE EMPLOYEE DO? Joins teams, instead of “get jobs”

Their presence brings positivity to the organization

Positive team members don’t speak negatively of others, they remain neutral.

NEGATIVE PEOPLE ARE CANCERS TO COMPANIES AND CAN CAUSE THEM TO FAIL!