How to find the person who can help you get ahead at work

Summary

 

Carla Harris talked about myth that meritocracy is not objective. Every evaluation is not processed by you, it is processed by more senior folks than you. So, if you want promote or get a more bonus, you must get sponsors in that evaluate group.

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Review

100% meritocracy is illusion. Because that is processed by the person. So, it is important to make good relationships with each other. I think that is very sad. Because that mean we can't be evaluated by 100% our work performance. But, we can think that communication performance is also a ability for success.

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Sentenses

I realized that this idea of a meritocracy that every organizations sells is really just a myth. You cannot have a 100 percent meritocratic environment when there is a human element involved in the evaluative equation, because by definition, that makes it subjective.

 

 

I cannot tell you how important it is to have a sponser. It is the critical relationship in your career. A mentor, frankly, is a nice to have, but you can survive a long time in your career without a mentor, but you are not going to ascend in any organization without a sponsor.

 

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Vocabularies

Round table : 원탁회의 (대등한 관계에서 자유로운 발언을 하는 회의)

closed door meeting : 사적인 모임

candid : 솔직한

evaluative : 평가하는

senior : 성숙한

folk : 사람

meritocracy : 실력주의

get ahead : 성공하다.

on my behalf : 나를 대신하여

subjective : 주관적인

in a no holds barred way : 무제한으로

frankly : 솔직하게

nirvana : 열반 (불도를 완전하게 이룬 최고의 경지)

readiness : 준비되어있음

worhiness : 가치가 있음

endeavor : 노력하다

ascend : 오르다.

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Reference

 

How to find the person who can help you get ahead at work, https://www.ted.com/talks/carla_harris_how_to_find_the_person_who_can_help_you_get_ahead_at_work/transcript#t-708465, Carla Harris