Comments on: Love your job but never fall in love with your company Meaning

By: Subodh Sarda

Subodh Sarda — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:37:58 +0000

I think that it’s partially true. Because without loving your company how you can be a loyal, devoted and valuable resource. Love doesn’t mean any lifetime contract but still it make people mind to always think about there selves only not about company or organization who provided them opportunity, learning and remuneration.

By: Vinay Nagaraju

Vinay Nagaraju — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 17:30:34 +0000

In reply to rationalraj2000.

You have a very strong point there Raj. It is unfortunately becoming an immediate manager. Although this is not the intention and there is supposed to be adequate flexibility that the company stays beyond a single person, it just is not as easy as it sounds.

An unfortunate thing with large companies is that people don’t seem to listen as often as they should. This makes them lose quite important resources. People have a lot of choices today. The company must strive to make the job interesting for them and do take some steps to keep the employee engaged and interested in their job. After all, their loyalty will be to what feeds their own personal goals. If the company fails to understand this, it starts losing its people right from the start. And in the end the company is left with a bunch of no good egoistic people who don’t have a lot in them to take the company forward.

This reminds me of a funny joke:

Finance Director: “Why are we spending so much money on training. What happens if these employees take all this training and leave?”
Manager: “Well, what happens if we don’t and they stay?”

That sums it up doesn’t it? People are very smart and clever. If you treat them right, they find reasons to stay. If not, they find reasons to leave. After all, not many people love a company for company’s sake anymore.

By: Vinay Nagaraju

Vinay Nagaraju — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 17:23:31 +0000

In reply to sumandray. True Suman, I guess the company can always survive without a resource. If we treat the companies also as a resource with which we are fulfilling our goals, perhaps we are on an equal footing with them after all :)

By: sumandray

sumandray — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 10:02:45 +0000

In reply to Vinay Nagaraju. Can't agree more, Give and Take is the way to go as long as it's not one party who always gives and the other takes.

By: rationalraj2000

rationalraj2000 — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 02:01:21 +0000

In reply to Sonia Chatterjee. The company is the person who is heading it at a particular moment (Sadly the reality. Ideally it should be driven by corporate values) and his /her beliefs and priorities. Therefore the quote of Mr Murthy is spot on. You will do well instead to enhance your capabilities as a professional. which is more satisfying and lucrative in the long run....

By: Vinay Nagaraju

Vinay Nagaraju — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 19:24:24 +0000

In reply to sumandray. Very interesting. I really like the representation in the form of a contract. There’s no concept of a lifetime job or company anymore. We work for a set of reasons - money, self actualisation and the joy we derive from the type of work we do. If company A does not provide this, there is a company B which can. Although companies don’t really enjoy this situation, it gives them enough motivation to treat their employees better. If they don’t , the employees have a lot of choice. If on the other hand there’s too much loyalty to a company, things can go awry when the company hits hard times or management changes or even goes through some financial struggles. Always a good choice to fend for ourselves and keep control within us. After all who cares better about us than our own selves?!

By: sumandray

sumandray — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 17:33:25 +0000

That is so very true and why not it comes from a person with vision. In a corporate environment today, an employee and the organisation share a mutual relationship to deliver a job under a contract. One delivers and the other pays as long as that relation last and either one can terminate this as per the contract.
Gone are the days where one would think of retiring from the fist job and maybe the next generation gets into it like what we have seen in Bollywood movies.

By: Vinay Nagaraju

Vinay Nagaraju — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 10:50:43 +0000

In reply to Sonia Chatterjee. Thanks Sonia, nice to hear about your experience. I suppose these things are never easy. My previous stint was almost similar, it was an early stage company and I really liked it. But after a while it wasn’t doing much for my career. The company had me for its benefit, but the job wasn’t as exciting anymore nor was it fulfilling my needs. That led me to an MBA. Experiences have a nice way of offering us some great insight about ourselves. I’m glad to hear that you made a move when you did. It’s always easier to move forward from your own decision rather than a company offering a rude shock.. Curious to know though, what do you do in solopreneurship?

By: Sonia Chatterjee

Sonia Chatterjee — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 10:38:25 +0000

I worked in the corporate world 8 years before taking the plunge into solopreneurship. I made the mistake of falling in love with the company instead of my job in my first job post MBA. I am glad that I moved on before I could become redundant after a change of my reporting authority