How to Excel in the Workplace
How to Excel in the Workplace The anecdote below captures the essence of going the extra mile as a necessary ingredient to excel in the workplace and marketplace: Ezra and… How to Excel in the Workplace The anecdote below captures the essence of going the extra mile as a necessary ingredient to excel in the workplace and marketplace: Ezra and Thomas joined a company together a few months after their graduation from university. After a few years of work, their Manager promoted Ezra to a position of Senior Sales Manager, but Thomas remained in his entry-level Junior Sales Officer position. Thomas developed a sense of jealousy and disgruntlement but continued working anyway. One day Thomas felt that he could not work with Ezra anymore. He wrote his resignation letter, but before he submitted it to the Manager, he complained that Management did not value hardworking staff, but promoted only the favoured! The Manager knew that Ezra worked very hard for the years he had spent in the company; even harder than Thomas and therefore he deserved the promotion. So in order to help Thomas to realize this, the Manager gave Thomas a task. “Go and find out if anyone is selling watermelons in town?” Thomas returned and said, “yes, there is someone!” The Manager asked, “how much per kg?” Thomas
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