Frontline to Mgmt
Created: 2022-04-28 09:23 Edited: By: Tags: content
Frontline employees are essential to the running of the world. If they want change, they have 2 paths: beat em or join em.
Beat em is the revolutionary path. Requires disengagement from current system.
Join em is the permissioned path. Requires complete buy-in to the current system.
Understand a business as a complex system, and you are intimately familiar with one level of the hierarchy.
The great eye-opener. Realizing your simple solutions to problems don’t scale as you go higher in the org (station attendant > manpower planner)
There is no computable optimal solution to a complex problem.
Steps:
- Pick the right organization (big, hires from below, well-reputed)
- If you’re in the wrong one, often there is a lateral move possible to the right one
- Give yourself runway (personal finance at your income level)
- Win your game (the tactical game you are tasked with solving)
- strats to win - metrics, relationships, reliability
- Learn on the side (skills that are transferrable upwards)
- could be community college, online diplomas, self-learning
- need to be able to communicate learnings well in interviews and apply them to test problems
- Apply for promotions (interal & external)
- Repeat for further growth
Benefits: Better sleep cycle = better health
Names: Frontline to Online