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GreenCovering:
Smart people should have little or no business building other people's businesses. In a country where leverages abound they would not be caught up in corporate mess and should have been building for operation oriented mindsets. It is a perpetual anomaly in poorly governed societies. Nice thread

What do you mean by operation oriented business?

Selling your skill and competence is a business as well. It just depends on if the compensation matches the skill deployed/exchanged.

But I get you though. There's a dearth of opportunities. That's why there are fraudsters. If one lacks a legit platform to channel his/her competence, they deploy it illegally.

Eraddray:
They are smart


But not good at office politics...
To get the right appraisal ..u need to be loyal to one boss to get some position

Bullshit! Worshippers of men.

bobogogo:
In nigeria mediocrity and bring him down syndrome is = office politics

Very nonsense thing. They white wash witchcraft and call it politics.

Eastcoastboy:
Very nonsense thing. They white wash witchcraft and call it politics.

No be small witchcraft.

Very dark and bakward minded people.

bobogogo:
No be small witchcraft.

Very dark and bakward minded people.

That is why there is darkness all over nigeria.

Omoh ehn, na to bounce from here oh.

Because what's with all these second class mindset.

Eastcoastboy:
Omoh ehn, na to bounce from here oh.

Because what's with all these second class mindset.

Second class is even a crown. They are classless and stone aged.

Eastcoastboy:
What do you mean by operation oriented business mindsets?

Selling your skill and competence is a business as well. It just depends on if the compensation matches the skill deployed/exchanged.

But I get you though. There's a dearth of opportunities. That's why there are fraudsters. If one lacks a legit platform to channel his/her competence, they deploy it illegally.

I mean people who like everyday routine. Not a bad thing though because they can achieve high throughput for the routine. They like the idea of "don't reinvent the wheel". But even as difficult as it is to reinvent a wheel, we have moved from solid log wheels to steel wheels to alloy to carbon fibre.

The problem is that many professionals spend years improving their technical abilities while completely neglecting the skills that determine who gets promoted, who gets heard, and who gets trusted with leadership responsibilities.

At the beginning of your career, people pay you for what you can do.

As you move higher, people begin to pay you for something else.

Can you communicate complex ideas in a way others understand?

Can you unite people behind a common goal?

Can you influence decisions without relying on your job title?

Can you manage difficult personalities and conflicts?

Can you present ideas confidently before executives, investors, clients, or stakeholders?

Can people trust you to represent the organization when it matters most?

Many brilliant professionals struggle with these questions. They assume hard work speaks for itself. Unfortunately, workplaces do not always reward the person who works hardest in silence.

Your Visibility matters, communication matters, relationships matter, influence matters ans strategic thinking matters too.
This explains why two people with similar qualifications, experience, and intelligence can end up with completely different careers. One remains a respected specialist for decades. The other becomes a manager, director, executive, or CEO.

The difference is often not talent.

The difference is the ability to combine expertise with leadership. Technical skills build credibility, communication creates opportunities and eadership creates impact.

The professionals who rise the furthest are usually not those who choose one over the other. They are the ones who master both.

professore:
The problem is that many professionals spend years improving their technical abilities while completely neglecting the skills that determine who gets promoted, who gets heard, and who gets trusted with leadership responsibilities.

At the beginning of your career, people pay you for what you can do.

As you move higher, people begin to pay you for something else.

Can you communicate complex ideas in a way others understand?

Can you unite people behind a common goal?

Can you influence decisions without relying on your job title?

Can you manage difficult personalities and conflicts?

Can you present ideas confidently before executives, investors, clients, or stakeholders?

Can people trust you to represent the organization when it matters most?

Many brilliant professionals struggle with these questions. They assume hard work speaks for itself. Unfortunately, workplaces do not always reward the person who works hardest in silence.

Your Visibility matters, communication matters, relationships matter, influence matters ans strategic thinking matters too.
This explains why two people with similar qualifications, experience, and intelligence can end up with completely different careers. One remains a respected specialist for decades. The other becomes a manager, director, executive, or CEO.

The difference is often not talent.

The difference is the ability to combine expertise with leadership. Technical skills build credibility, communication creates opportunities and eadership creates impact.

The professionals who rise the furthest are usually not those who choose one over the other. They are the ones who master both.

Someone without all those qualities must not be a leader of an organisation before getting paid accordingly.
Check the sporting world. Cos you are the captain of a football team doesnt mean you earn the highest in the team.
In nigeria, people attribute highest pay to leadership alone and that is why corruption will not die.
Highest pay should go to competence and not leadership.
Leadership is a call to service.
A skilled or competent leadership should be highly paid as well.

Just look at the leaders in nigeria govt.
They did not go into govt to serve the masses. They went there to compete for who is going to earn the highest without delivering (competence or skill).
Corruption becomes the order of the day.
Nothing gets done.

bobogogo:
Someone without all those qualities must not be a leader of an organisation before getting paid accordingly.
Check the sporting world. Cos you are the captain of a football team doesnt mean you earn the highest in the team.
In nigeria, people attribute highest pay to leadership alone and that is why corruption will not die.

I get your point, and it's valid.

professore:
I get your point, and it's valid.

That is the orientation that is missing in nigeria.
we need to reward competence and handband leadership.
Once we do this, corruption will nose dive and positive effect of good governance will be seen and felt.

NO serious Organisation will engage a dull person as it's CEO . In fact there are qualifications & competencies you most possess before you attained that position. CEO's of most of these corporate & standard organisation are the most smartest.

profmallor:
when you are so good at what you do that no one can replace you, then you will never leave that position. Those who rise are often those who have learnt to balance competence with the opportunity to sell themselves, including learning how to play office politics as well.

Well, I tend to see this as the illusion smart people live in. And it is the exact perception that your paymaster wants you to have about yourself: the best brain since Einstein. Once you are locked in here, it is the perfect recipe to be sucked dry and discarded. He knows that in 10 to 15 years max, you have gone past your prime. Company grows, smart gets relegated or pushed out. That's why most once top performers end up without a plan B after exit. I agree with the concluding part of your post though. However, the problem for me is this phrase selling yourself. It is not always as benign as it appears. Many times, it is the vehicle to trying to capture the narrative, exhibit coded greediness and other messy manoeuvring in a team or unit.

Technical competence is the baseline that gets you hired, but communication and leadership are what actually get you promoted. While expertise earns you respect as a specialist, leadership skills allow you to influence others and drive real results, which is what organizations reward at the executive level. The most successful professionals are those who use their technical skills to build credibility and their leadership to create lasting impact.