Tips For Workplace People To Learn To Put On Airs

"Hello, is it Lucy?"

There was a woman's voice on the phone. "I have put you through to xxx." for a moment. After the tick, she said, "I'm sorry!"

XXX just picked up another phone...

Please forgive me. "

This annoying "through the phone" power game is simply more common.

Important people do not dial numbers, and the people they want to talk to, but less important, are forced to wait for the call to be connected.

The difference between this Monday's call is that the person is not particularly important.

She's just a reporter, almost like me.

Finally, when I talked with her, I did not feel particularly willing to do what she asked me to do.

After that, I went out to find an acquaintance for lunch.

I suddenly appeared in his office and told the front desk that I came.

Then wait and wait.

After a long time - that's enough time for him to write several e-mails, make a phone call, and then go to the bathroom - the elevator door opens and he walks out, looking calm.

He is also playing the game that I am more important than you.

And I seem to be the one who failed again.

After lunch, on the way home, I cooked two theories about power game and why this power is so annoying.

First of all, I am in a troublesome age of life: it is so important that I can not enjoy others' games, but I am not so important that I want to play this game myself.

Secondly, in today's office life, small power games play a more important role than ever before.

Modern enterprises no longer assign formal positions to you in a grand hierarchy, so you have to play these little games to find such a location for yourself.

In the rest of the week, I looked for power games everywhere.

So I summed up some rules of how to play "I am more important than you," but they are by no means the most comprehensive.

Everyone is playing in his own way.

The following are the few basic guidelines I have collected from people working nearby.

These rules fall into two categories: to make important people feel important, and to make others feel small.

Most of these rules are related to time: if you want to win, you must always show others that your time is far more valuable than theirs.

You are more busy and your diary is also full.

This is often the case.

Listen attentively: listen selectively, and never listen to others when talking about your life.

It is better to ask such questions: "how is it at home?"

But as soon as they begin to answer, you immediately look over their shoulders or start making a list of what you want to do on your PDA.

Clothing code: for important people, there is such a choice: extremely fashionable and expensive, or extremely sloppy.

I worked with someone. He was so important that he could not put his shirt in his trousers.

E-mail: here are three conventions.

Let others send email for you; do not reply to anything except basic information; if you reply, don't bother to see if your message is meaningful.

Blackberries: always bring your BlackBerry e-mail device, and often interrupt it with it to pick up the phone and read e-mail.

Blackberries are perfect for showing off at meetings.

Fruit: Send a dish of fruit to your office every day.

This shows that you are too busy to peel the orange peel yourself, and you are important to make the company care about your diet.

The fruit plate should be put on your coffee table and pasted on the plastic wrap all day, implying that you are too busy to eat.

Visitors will never be provided with fruit, because their vitamin C level is not as important as yours.

Your office: a corner office with sleek furniture and your Nelson Mandela and Toni Blair (Tony Blair) photo will be very good, Nelson.

But without that, you can do a lot.

In smaller offices, you can make others sit on soft couches and put them at a disadvantage.

Even if you have no office at all, you can make sure that the person who answers the phone for you (on the phone) says "a certain office".

There are three choices in this respect.

The voice is so small that other people try to listen to it; the voice is so loud that others have to listen, whether they want to or not, or (more powerful), to be arrogant, to speak too slowly, to waste their audience's time, to give them the impression that you think they are too stupid to understand what they are saying.

Lunch: go to a style, Captain and your restaurant.

Encourage your guests to order the most desired dishes on the menu.

Then ask the waiter to ask you, "as usual, sir?"

As a result, it was a roasted sole on the menu.

If you are tired of this list, I would like to introduce another more advanced version of this game to you at once. This version will subvert all the above rules.

A colleague of mine recently interviewed chairman of HSBC (HSBC).

When she returned to the office, she told us that the chairman of the Board sent her out of the hallway and looked for her coat for her.

This reminds me of a lunch I had with a CEO of a big company about a year ago.

I can't remember what I talked about at that time.

But I remember clearly that he himself came to the reception desk to bring me in.

These two people are playing a game of the highest level (maybe unconscious). It is called, "let us pretend that I am not important to you."

If you can play this game well, you can do whatever you want.

Unfortunately, when you pretend to be polite, there is an obstacle.

In this game, if you want to be proficient in this way, you must be very messy.