I have recently been thinking about the connection between what I earn and what I contribute. Not what I do, or say I do. I hear often about people saying they do not earn "enough" or they are not paid enough (to do...). In the interests of justice, I want to look at it from the other side: do I add sufficient value to my place of work to warrant the salary they pay me. Or as one friend used to say: did I earn my salary today?
I don't know where you work, or what you do, but I want to honestly say that I earned my salary today. I want to be a contributor and not just a consumer... which implies cutting out those time consuming things that do not earn my salary and adding in more of the stuff that actually earns money for my institution. For each of us this depends not only on what the job requires, but on what we do best. As a leader this means that those who work for me should be encouraged to do the things they do best and to work together to complete more, better.
Is there something you think would benefit your business, school, non-profit if you just stopped doing it? And what would you do with the time?
No comments:
Post a Comment