During the 70s, we often do the mad dog and Englishmen thing - play soccer or basketball during the hot noon sun.
Remember how we choose the teams then?
2 natural leaders will normally self-appoint themselves as the team captains (ever wondered who died and made them Indian Chiefs?).
Then in alternate turns, each Captain will choose 1 player for the pool of us.
This is the time where the packing order of who is who is put on full nudity display. If you are a good player, team Captains will fight hand over fist to get you in their teams.
It's a nice feeling to be picked during the early rounds.
Not so fun to be picked near the bottom...
When we grew up, we realise it's pretty much the same old same old.
Some teenage girls and boys are the popular picks for dating and hanging out together. Everywhere they go, they seem to have an entourage.
Reading here, old fogeys in the corporate world would have hit their forehead with their palm: "Alamak!"
Simple right?
The secret of success in the corporate world is just this:
1) Get to be the Indian Chief who picks others.
2) Failing with, you position yourself to be picked during the early draft rounds.
Have any other department heads of your organisation drop hints that you'll be most welcomed to join their teams if you ever wished for a change of exposure?
Have your suppliers or business clients ever made job offers for you to switch over?
Have any of your competitors made offers you can't refuse to betray your alliances?
Some of us are technically brilliant; but we always seem to be passed-over. You already know the answer - we are bad at marketing or selling ourselves.
What good is this knowledge if we are too proud or unwilling to change? Selling is beneath you...
Some of us are loners - lone wolf. So no amount of marketing or selling will help as that would make us even more miserable; trying to fit us round pegs into square holes...
Maybe self-employment or starting your own business would be better as we can be our own Captains - we choose ourselves!
Perhaps that is the biggest motivator for people to start their own business?
Think about it. Why would you want to start a business if you are already a success in the corporate world?
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