Put Your Work in Your Heart, and Your Boss Will Put You in His Heart!

No one wants to be a small clerk forever, but do you know how to successfully leap over the "dragon gate" and transform into a dragon? The secret is: if you keep your work in your heart, your boss will keep you in his heart; if you cast your work aside, your boss will cast you aside.

Therefore, as an employee, you must be single-minded, devote yourself to work, love the company like your boss, and work like your boss. Only then will the scale in your boss's heart tip in your favor.

If you always think about the company's affairs and keep work in your heart, your boss will always think about your future and keep you in his heart; if you rarely think about the company's affairs and often cast work aside, your boss will rarely think about your future and will cast you aside.

According to a Gallup survey of 42 items, in most companies, 75% of employees are not engaged. These employees just muddle through their days at the company, lacking dedication. Moreover, research shows that the longer the employee's tenure, the less engaged they are. Many senior employees are "present in body but absent in mind" or "retired on the job," casting work far aside, causing huge losses to the company, such as wasted resources, missed business opportunities, reduced income, employee turnover, increased absenteeism, and low efficiency.

They usually work passively. When it comes to tasks assigned by the boss, they always quibble about what's within their duties and what's not. If it's not their duty, they say, "This should be done by so-and-so." Even for work within their duties, if not supervised, they often procrastinate or even skip it altogether. For tasks not assigned by the boss, they often turn a blind eye. For example, if materials in some part of the company are being rained on, they say, "That's the warehouse manager's business, not mine." Because many people think this way, a large batch of materials gets ruined without anyone caring.

We often see this situation: before the end of work hours, people line up at the time clock near the company gate, waiting for the time to punch out and leave. In their minds, the 8 hours are for working for the boss, and beyond 8 hours, they have nothing to do with the company.

A manager had just taken a position at a company. One afternoon, he needed to write an important document and then make dozens of copies. It was almost time to leave, but he hadn't finished. To ensure a place to copy, he went to the print room downstairs and said to the clerk there, "I'll need to copy something in a bit; please wait for me." When he finished writing and printing the document, it was 3 minutes past the end of work hours.

He hurriedly took the document to the print room, but the door was locked. Since the document was needed that evening, he had to ask the security guard to call back the clerk who had left. But she scolded, "I waited for you until the end of work hours, and you didn't come!" When the security guard reminded her that he was the new manager, she was scared and sweating, and respectfully welcomed him into the print room.

For employees with such low "level," the boss has no reason to say they are wrong, because after work hours, the time indeed belongs to them personally. However, the boss also has no reason to like or even promote such employees.

Ikujiro Inoue, founder of Sanyo, expressed the feelings of many bosses: "For ordinary employees, I only require them to work 8 hours. That is, they only need to think about work during working hours. For them, after leaving the company gate, they can do whatever they want. But I also say, if you are satisfied with such a life and have no thought of working 16 hours or more, then you may remain an ordinary employee forever. Otherwise, you should consciously think more about work and the company outside of working hours."

No one is willing to be a small clerk forever, but many people only know they "don't want" but don't think about how to get rid of the status of a small clerk.

A professional manager who had a smooth career once said: "If you always think about the company's affairs and keep work in your heart, your boss will always think about your future and keep you in his heart; if you rarely think about the company's affairs and often cast work aside, your boss will rarely think about your future and will cast you aside."

This professional manager once worked at an automobile company. There is a story about him.

If you were a production manager at an automobile company, and one day after work you passed a parking lot and found a car produced by your company had broken down, what would you do? Many people might say, "It's none of my business; I'll go home." Others might say, "This is the after-sales service department's business; I don't need to handle it." Those with a higher level might take the initiative to walk over, ask about the situation, and then call the after-sales service department.

The professional manager mentioned above was not yet a manager at the time; he was just an ordinary technical worker in the production department. One day, on his way home from work, he encountered a car that had broken down. He took the initiative to walk over, asked about the situation, took out the spare tools in the car, and spent two hours fixing it. The car owner was very moved and asked if he was a staff member of the after-sales service department. He said no, he was from the production department. The owner asked why he took the initiative to repair the car if he wasn't from after-sales. He said because the car was from their company, he had to maintain the company's image, so it was natural to repair it; which department he belonged to didn't matter.

The matter soon passed. Just when this technical worker almost forgot about it, a company leader found him and announced that he would be promoted to production manager. It turned out that the moved car owner had told the company about his deed. The company leader was moved by his dedication and gave him the opportunity, saying to many present: "A person who can treat maintaining the company's image as his own business on the way home from work is exactly the kind of person we should promote!"

For bosses, they will do anything beneficial to the company. They always yearn to find employees who treat company affairs as their own, hoping such employees can become their "substitutes" to accomplish things they don't have the energy to do. Obviously, their requirement for employees is to work like them.

If you can work like your boss, always keeping work in your heart and treating company affairs as your own, then you will surely make your boss's eyes light up: This is the person I'm looking for! Next, good opportunities, high positions, and high salaries will follow.

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