Guardians of the Status Quo

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

If you work for a large firm, your job is, at a minimum, to become a guardian of the status quo and, perhaps, create some small incremental change that improves things slightly.

If you want big changes, you have to work for a firm that believes big change is needed and possible.

It’s like working for the government.

My brother worked for the City of New York more than a half century ago. His job was to copy columns of numbers from a page of an old manual ledger to another page. This was so long ago that the City of New York had bank books for their accounts (for those of you too young to know what that is, it was a passport sized ledger where your banking transactions were recorded. 

At the end of his second week of this mind-numbing job, he walked over to a copier, made a copy of each ledger page, and put them in the second ledger. He broke the system.

Is there a way that you can break the system and create improvements that are so simple to do that people will ask, “Why didn’t I think of that?” 

Or would you rather preserve the past like a modern-day Bob Cratchit?

 

Ⓒ The Big Game Hunter, Inc., Asheville, NC 2019, 2025

 

ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 1500 episodes and his newest show, “No BS Coaching Advice” and was a member of The Forbes Coaches Council.

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