Motivational

Rule 95: Don’t give too much away

December 26, 2016

Nigeria’s Abuja based Politician & Philantropist, Hajia Zuwaira Gambo

It
is probably advisable not to tell anyone that you:

·
Intend
applying for a new position within the company

·
Intend
applying for a new job outside of the company

·
Are
thinking of leaving anyway

·
Are
thinking of asking for a pay rise

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·
Are
thinking of changing your working schedules

·
Are
a rules Player.

Don’t
blab to anyone of anything you are doing.
It might be seen as bragging – a Rules Player never brags about
anything. We are quiet humility itself –
or it might give rise to gossip and we know the rule about that, don’t we. And the truth is that even if you only tell
one person, things leak out. They tell
their closest friend and they tell theirs.
And so on it goes until you are being hauled before the boss and
interrogated as to why you are leaving next Monday
when all you had done was say you were thinking about it to Susan
in the canteen. If you do reveal stuff
about yourself you are liable to:

·
Chinese
whispers (is it PC to still call it that, and if not, what do we call it now?)

·
Rumor,
gossip and an opportunity for others to possibly use it against you

“DON’T EVEN
ALLOW YOURSELF THE PRIVILEGE OF THINKING OUT LOUD. KEEP YOUR OWN COUNSEL AND YOU WON’T GO FAR
WRONG”.

·
Give
the opposition an unfair advantage

·
Give
the management information they shouldn’t be privy to at this stage.

“No, this is not lying; it is throwing them
off the scent. Don’t lie, but you can be
circumspect, devious, inventive, creative, and eccentric and you are allowed to
set up a decoy”.

Don’t
even allow yourself the privilege of thinking out loud. Keep your own counsel and you won’t go far
wrong. What you intend doing is entirely up to you. If you need information and anyone asks you
why you need it, invent something entirely bogus. No, this is not lying; it is throwing them
off the scent. Don’t lie, but you can be
circumspect, devious, inventive, creative, and eccentric and you are allowed to
set up a decoy.

If
someone asks you directly if you are thinking about applying for a particular
position you can always brush it off, ‘Oh,
always thinking about applying’.
Does this mean yes or no? Remember don’t
lie, don’t say, ‘No’, when it is
plainly untrue and will be seen to be such when you do apply.

(Excerpts from THE
RULES OF WORK by Richard Templer Read “How to keep your ear to the ground” from The Rules tomorrow on Asabeafrika)

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