There is one process you can go through to becoming the best employee and give yourself the best chance of rising to the top of any company or organization. The advice is extremely unpragmatic & frankly unpractical. Have we lost you yet? Here it is….

Start your own company, give it your all, Fail (given the stats of companies failing, please don’t try to fail, you have over a 90% chance that you will fail – if you succeed, then ‘how about it!’), and then join the “working world” again.

Anyone that goes through this process will surely become an unbelievably better employee.

Firstly, post your startup failure, you will now appreciate everything especially all those things that you didn’t appreciate before you left: compliance, HR, maintenance team, IT team, accounting department, support staff and yes even your boss(es); not to mention your desk, computer, electricity, internet, your office space, you name it. And that monthly paycheck ain’t half bad either. Essentially and most likely, all you will have to do at your new job is sit down and do your work, OMG, what a luxury!

Secondly, given that now you have this improved sense of gratitude, you will be happier and far more productive – that’s just a good thing, period.

Thirdly, you will be thinking more holistically about the Firm and you will be more likely to generate ideas as you now have training from running your own company. You can piece things together that you might not have been able to come up with before your failed startup!

Our fourth point is that you will now have empathy for what it’s like being a boss. You realize now after your failed start-up that being a boss is not all that it’s cracked up to be by any stretch of the imagination, especially when things aren’t going well. And in turn will be far more supportive of your immediate boss and bosses boss than you could ever imagine – instead of possibly previously complaining, you are now on their side more often than not rallying the troops around you to move ahead in the direction they should be going!

And lastly, since you are now happier, more productive, grateful, more innovative, supportive of the company through your bosses and thus have turned into someone that can be trusted to have a great attitude, get the job done and in short be a flag bearer for the firm through your actions, your success will beget more success and more success and guess what? That’s how the world works and before you know, you may be running the entire firm.

But who would have thought that all you had to do was start your own firm, fail and likely fail miserably to become an all-star employee.

In closing, hopefully for most of you, you won’t have to fail miserably and go through that very painful 2, to 3 to 4 year plus process, but to be frank most of you probably won’t be able to improve to the extent you would like within a company without going through this pain.

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