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    The Indispensable Executive
    The Indispensable Executive
    The Indispensable Executive
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    The Indispensable Executive

    By Bolaji Ola-Adams

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    With the challenges in the global economy, many jobs are at stake. Companies want to stay afloat and in the process, many employees loose their jobs. Not so with an indispensable executive. This book gives you the strategy to be the most sought after worker that any employer will pay your desired price to get you to work with them. This book also teaches you how to be happy and stay motivated working for somebody else. Its a vital resource in today's knowledge based economy. It helps you see things in a whole new perspective and view your 9-5 job with a much more empowering attitude

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOla-Adams International LLC
    Release dateDec 19, 2017
    ISBN9781386202837
    The Indispensable Executive
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    Bolaji Ola-Adams

    Bolaji Ola-Adams, is an Author, Motivational Speaker and an Entreprenuer. He currently serves on the board of a number of companies, offering professional advice that greatly impacts on the productivity and growth of these companies. He is a personal coach to several C.E.Os, helping them to articulate their visions, both individual and corporate and asking relevant questions that create the enabling environment that gives room for the development of strategies that makes the result they want to achieve attainable. He travels widely and speaks yearly in several high profile seminars and conferences around the world, creating positive response in his audience and helping them to realize that it is within the power of everyone to create the tomorrow they hope for. He believes that any negative circumstance can be turned around in the positive direction if the essential principles are understood and implemented. He seeks to empower people everywhere with the techniques essential for personal growth and financial freedom. He is carrying this mission with great commitment and passion, pushing through his insightful information in every nook and cranny of the society with every resource available.

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      The Indispensable Executive - Bolaji Ola-Adams

      Introduction

      O

      ver the years, having consulted for diverse organisations, I have come to realise that there is a peculiar human resources challenge which most of the employers in these sectors face. It is one thing to find a good job, but it is another thing for you to understand the demands of that job. In fact, it is another thing for us to meet the demands of the employers' expectations. The Indispensable Executive is not a book written for the people at the top in any establishment or company alone. Rather, it is a book which is written for every employee in any organisation irrespective of their status. An executive is not just that individual who is among the top management cadre. In this context, it is anyone who has been assigned any specific assignment or duty by his/her employer.

      There is a wide gap between the expectation of the employer(s) and the production of the employee(s). This often creates the prevalent disharmony in a workplace. It is my sincere hope that this book will help most employees perform better. To help them become extra-ordinary workers.

      I sincerely believe that most executives (workers) are good. They want to contribute something positive to the job they have been employed to do. Oftentimes, the reason why we do not measure up is because we lack the essential knowledge of how to turn situations around. The problem in most cases is that we do not know how to go about it. As a matter of fact, some do not even know why they are employed in the first place. These, in most cases, are the impediments which create low performance.

      As an individual, you have to understand why you are employed if you are to make the most of that opportunity and create value in every duty you have been given to perform, for there is an inherent opportunity in it for you. Your employer stands to benefit from your performance and so do you. The knowledge and experience you garner through that task can never be taken away from you. That experience might fetch you a lot of money in later years.

      Today, we are living in a knowledge-based economy where the man or woman who knows the what and how of what must be done will ultimately name their own price. Do not shirk work. You are not cheating your employer but yourself. I have encountered several applicants who do anything possible to get a particular job, and after they get the job, their enthusiasm wanes down. I do acknowledge that what informs this loss of interest oftentimes goes beyond the making of the employee, yet some are caused by the gradual ownership and arrival mindset of the employee.

      This book will address these salient issues. Issues which, most times, constitute the mental blockage to how we perceive happiness in the workplace. As you read this book, I am confident that you will come to the awareness that the employee and the employer are partners in progress and it is not the case of servant and master. Lack of understanding of the purpose of the workplace is what causes abuse and discontentment. When you know why you are in a place, the resolve and will to do all that you need to do to increase the efficiency and profitability of that establishment will be developed. Therefore, from the managing director who sits in the oval office down to the cleaner or clerk in that same establishment, all have a duty to perform. That is why we have been employed in the first instance.

      I pray and sincerely hope that your work, through this book, will take on a deeper and higher dimension. Also, that the zeal to do your work in an excellent way will consume you and your impact will be felt by the establishment that has hired you. It is because of you that this book has been written. Make your presence felt in the workplace.

      Chapter 1

      Why are you Employed?

      I

      f you take a good look around, you will notice that everything around us is a solution to a problem. The more problems that are solved, the better our standard of living and the more valuable we become. When you stop solving problems, your life loses the zest it possesses.

      We all came into this world packaged. Some of us become unwrapped and are utilised for the benefit of mankind before our term here on Earth is over while others are not yet unwrapped and thereby, not utilised. Whatever establishment you might find yourself in, you are there to solve a fundamental problem. When you are there, and your impact is not felt, it means that you are not useful and will very much be easily dispensable. An indispensable executive is that person who fills the vacuum; he or she is that person who is a round peg in a round hole. Their absence is strongly felt and their presence is impacting.

      An executive is not just one of those on the top brass in an establishment. Rather, an executive is anyone working in an establishment and who is saddled with the responsibility of carrying out a particular task. We are all executives whether we work for ourselves or for somebody. As long as you carry out a particular task which culminates into the overall productivity of the entire establishment, you are indeed an executive. When you have this in your mind, you will understand that you are expected to deliver your share of work to the best of your ability with little or no supervision. Where you work or who you work for are not the major determinant of your worth or value.

      People say there are no jobs in this part of the world. I choose to disagree. I believe that there will always be work for that man or woman who is willing to take responsibility for productivity.

      Every organisation exists with the sole aim of producing either a product or rendering a service. This is the only way they can stay alive. If they are not producing or rendering a service, they will collapse and because no organisation wants to die, it will always look for men and women who can help them stay alive by being continuously productive. What the employer pays for is your solutions.

      I have had the opportunity of conducting several interviews for prospective job applicants. Other times, I have sat on a recruiting panel and the experiences are usually the same. Many supposed executives have no clue why they are coming to work in the organisation they expect will employ them. When they are asked questions such as why they wish to be employed by the interviewing company, they begin to stammer.

      We live in a world that is operated by buyers and sellers. The buyer wants what the seller wants to sell, and the seller wants what the buyer wants to give in exchange. Every executive is a seller. There is something you have that

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