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How To Avoid Being A Villain In The Office

Photo by   Finn Gross Maurer   on   Unsplash         There are loads of super hero movies these days. Most blogs would take advantage of the super hero movie craze and talk about how to be that super hero, but I thought of giving it a new spin to look at how to avoid being a villain in one. The Evil Post Box The first advice I was given by a manager was “I didn't hire you to be a post box. Post box just take letters and wait for them to be picked up. I hired you to value add to the company.” This stuck to my head since. From every job and role I took, I look I could value add to that position. For example, one of my jobs required me to read tech publications daily. I had this bright idea then that if we were reading all this publications and reporting them, why don't we provide media monitoring services too. Soon the media monitoring business grew. One of the challenges though was how to purchase less expensive publications from overseas...