Monday, August 23, 2010

What do you do here?

In the real world you really fall into one of four categories as an employee. You may change category from moment to moment, but you pretty much better fall into one of these if you are going to stay around.

1. Create billable hours or stuff your company can sell - you may be a programmer, a lawyer, or an assembly line worker, and thus you create stuff or service to sell.

2. The Rainmaker - you sell stuff. You get clients to say yes and you do this all by yourself or with minimal support. In addition you create partnerships that bring in revenue and growth.

3. You support the production or rainmaker folks with measurable outcomes.

4. You receive and track down money that is owed to your company.

If you don't fit into one of these four groups more than 7 hours a day - you're probably not going to be around long - or you should try owning the company. Even then - you get to do ALL FOUR ALL THE TIME.

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