A Harvard career coach’s “unspoken rules” for getting promoted | Gorick Ng for Big Think+
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Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc How do people actually get promoted? According to Harvard career coach Gorick Ng, it’s all about knowing the unspoken rules for success.
Basically, if you want to get ahead... you need to sell who you are or what you personally believe in, go against your own value system, and rest easy on your knees. The moment you push back you will be labeled as a problem and removed from their system.
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Fair enough but the reality of it is very simple - if your boss likes you, you get anything and everything. And that isn't simple. You could do everything right and your manager may still not like you.
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So it’s a rigged game… I remember sharing my concern on some matters with a coworker and I didn’t realize he’s took the full credit for it…
The workplace isn’t a level playing field for a number of reasons. When you aren’t in a position of privilege, how do you get ahead and score that coveted promotion? According to Harvard career coach Gorick Ng, it’s all about knowing the unspoken rules for success.
Keeping your head down will only get you so far, Ng believes. What sets the rising stars apart from the stagnant are the relationships they build, the impact they make, and their clear desire to understand their manager’s objectives even when they aren’t made overtly explicit.
I had to fire my co founder because he was exactly like this guy. Literally all fluff no substance.
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hidden expectation .. that's why i am never a good employee. haha i just started my own company
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6 minutes of worthless babble.
About Gorick Ng:
Gorick Ng is the Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right, one of Thinkers50’s top 10 management books. Harvard Business School gifted it to every MBA student to give them an edge in the professional world. A widely-requested speaker across the world’s most recognized institutions from Stanford to IBM, Ng helps employers build an ownership mindset within their teams and empowers educators to improve career readiness among their students.
Just a bunch of nonsense
Ng is a career adviser at Harvard College, specializing in coaching FGLI (first-generation, low-income) students. He is also on the faculty at UC Berkeley, where he teaches the unspoken rules of career navigation, now available as an online course on his website. He has been featured in The New York Times, TED, CNBC, Financial Times, Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes, and The Today Show. Ng, a first-gen college student, is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School. Each week, Ng shares career strategies through “Did You Know?,” a newsletter deconstructing the untold paths to success — of people (and things) you know.
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I save you 5 minutes of your life: unspoken rules: ask why, when, how; be visible, speak up so people remember you.
Other than that; it is a circus, so learn who is running the boat; kiss the ring, kneel before Zod and you will become a big shot fast, even if you never do anything worthwile in your life. Bonus points: always support what your manager does.
This nothingburger video where he doesn’t say anything
@fatalbeliefGet to know colleagues and leadership
@Dominique-x8rHe said a whole lot of nothing!
@mdrezaurrahman1213I learned nothing from this video after he talked so many
@weechenglim5959Not very informative, more than half of the time he's explaining the problem.
@carmenlux1775Get to the point brooooo
@JimineyBobBro just yapped for 30min and provided 0 information
@AmericanSupremacy.The distinction between being useful and being impactful is a total game-changer. Great advice
@TrainedbyColtonThis is a joke this Asian doesn’t get ITS BECAUSE YOUR ASAIN your an Outsider. The dark skin you speak of will be given opportunities just because.
Write down everything and evaluate.
Make sure you have a second part time job THAT WILL SOLVE ALOT OF YOUR QUESTION
And stop over thinking. You desperately don’t get it
To save you some time, this is basically an add in disguise, he talks a lot and says very little. I guess that's one of his "unspoken rules" to sell himself/business.
@SClearSCIn Europe, the unspoken rule is simple: be White.
@AldoSterone111Surely a "Career Coach" is a Mickey Mouse Type Job. Much like a Data Analyst, Professor of Media Studies, Profesorr of The History of Art etc etc.
@petersaunders747Me without a job watching this vid
@Sieuqt“Getting promoted” and “building a job you love” are presented as equal goals, but often they are opposing. No one wants a different job title w more responsibility but no other benefit
@brittanyravi5388Good talk
@FindClarityWithKaduruThe unspoken rules remain unspoken.
@Muhdayyan2024I kept waiting for him to get to the point and share some solutions, but this is just a big marketing video
@CareercoachatlantaIm in an office where most all promotion is about favoritism and personal relationships
@MrGriff305-d3u5 and half minutes if blah blah blah for a fragment of little tangliable information! YAWN!
@p4k8g5i7The higher ups will be screwing up and fellows like hime will be playing 'go figure' and calling it opportunity and what not and expect to get promoted.
Sit down, stick to the damn SOPs and KPA! enough of this tom foolery.
? What is the learning? Ask to do it right? Can not see the value of this video
@MrxvtuAll the straightforward advices you can imagine are gathered in this video. No secrets, no insides. My grandma can do it better.
@AlikPalin my experience, INSIDERS hate abhor loathe these very questions from an OUTSIDER
@rosie_._youtubeThis isn't wrong, but it misses another huge problem. You also have to know what your boss, boss's boss, boss's boss's boss wants out of this without being a pest and asking an annoying amount of questions. Even if you're ultimately successful but asked an annoying amount of questions, they will not look highly upon you
@thesadboxmanChai se jyada ketli hi garam hai.
@kavilwaghThe Teamleaders and seniors told me to sign up , hopefully I conquered my job place
@PitbullSMDToo abstract about successful success. In general, this video can be attributed to infogypsyism
@po5540Find a job that you can delegate responsibilities/accountability while still able to claim the success.
Play the politics and get promoted.
- managerial class 101 😂
Probably the most useless video i have ever seen
@talhajamalkhan7834What a useless video, so generic, lol
@shreeduttpatnam6164I know I should ask why, but how to ask why is where I find difficulty. I don’t want to sound like I don’t want to do the work and am trying to push back.
@thihachiWasted 5.45 minutes of my life
@Catpatrick007My rules:
For new job
1. Be atleast 30-50% knowledgeable as others(in your level) in first 90days.
2. Be a friend to everyone, here's what point 1 comes handy. You can understand what others know. And they will give you favour as well.
3. Fail more and fast in the first 180 days. People will forgive you.
4. Deliver something meaningful, just a month before appraisal is finalized.
5. Always avoid being a bad news bearer. Let someone else deliver it.
6. Keep up with your boss's boss. Give him some major updates(good news) everytime you meet him.
7. Ask questions/suggestions in townhall, or similar gatherings.
8. Be courageous, never show you are afraid.
9. Read the documents which are internal to the company, use ai to summarise it.
10. Always make a better looking deck than others.
11. Always show good things before the bad.
12. Always Raise a problem, with a solution even if it's not chosen you will be seen as a pain reliever.
13. The smaller the company the bigger the politics.
14. Always boast others on their face. This will make them like you and make them overconfident and they'll fall on their own. Also fuel them if they are unhappy, they will fall.
15. You can break people's trust only once, use that opportunity wisely
There is an easier and a better way to get promoted: move to another company.
Unspoken rules in play here are: the positions are already occupied and so you aren’t getting any, companies prefer to hire than to promote, and loyalty doesn’t pay.
its about acting out all these stuff that you don't really care about and live miserably
@mynameisdrpatfiguring out those unspoken rules in consulting? reminded me of when i was flailing with case interviews. tried winging it solo, but that was messy. then stumbled upon The Thinksters who showed me it’s all about structuring right. boom, landed my spot at Bain! back then they had these free sessions, not sure now though.
@JosephinaHerrmannBeen the "outsider" all of my life until I married. Because of her family I became an insider and could finally navigate these strategies without being clueless. It is a bigger advantage than people realize!
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