Workplace Multiplier by Tola Akinsulire

Friday Edition: November 15, 2024

Welcome to the Workplace Multiplier newsletter. Published every Tuesday & Friday, we discover something crucial to help us on the way to winning at work and in life.

Starting From Where You Are And Not Where You Have Been

During the week, I had a prospective investment opportunity meeting with a group.

Our conversations went well and the future will show the possibilities that might arise.

Across the table, there were different experiences.

One of us started his business with no capital - all he had was a willingness to do the grunt work. And take any small piece of the pie that came along the way.

The story was a bit different for another person on the table.

Before he started his firm, he had worked in a larger company. His experience there framed his point of view. He wanted to do big projects and get a big piece of the pie for his work.

On one of the first major opportunities he got, he had the project but no funding for it. He found someone willing to fund the project for a significant share of the profit. He didn’t take it.

Why? He felt he had done the biggest part of the job - creating a bankable project.

He forgot one of the first rules of ideas - a genius with a great idea without funding for legs is just owning 100% of nothing. Funding gives wings to ideas.

With hindsight, he said he should have taken that opportunity those years ago.

His big company experience also meant he was always looking for a big idea, not the next best idea.

Why am I talking about him?

Because transitions are inevitable in your work career. Sometimes you may even have to change jobs and country.

When you do, the transition goes well when you work based on where you are now not where you have been.

Yes, it’s great to carry good practices from the previous company or country into your new job or country.

But do it carefully. And patiently.

You don’t have to try to change your team or the people you work with in one fell swoop.

Take the best of both experiences and make a new beginning with them.

This is one of the ways you learn to reinvent yourself.

A necessary skill on your road to winning.

Winning at Work and in Life.

You can win at work and in life.

Tola Akinsulire

I am a Workplace Multiplier

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