Managing Your Team, Managing Your Self, Have principles, and stick to them!
Houman S. Kaji
Founder, Board Member & Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation Architect Strategy and Ecosystem
When you think about it, you've got to have principles. If you don't, you end up despising yourself or in debt or prison. You might end up like this anyway, but at least you could say, 'But 1 have my principles.'
There has to be a line beyond which you will not go. You have to know where that line is drawn. No one else has to know until they ask you to cross it and then you can tell them. That line has to be a 10-mile-high solid steel wall. You cant go beyond it, no matter what.
I have a friend who's boss once asked her to falsify a formal warning letter to present at a tribunal for a member of staff who had been sacked and was claiming unfair dismissal. Would you do this? Does it matter whether you think the person was rightly or wrongly dismissed? Suppose they had been warned but it hadn't been recorded in writing? Suppose you and your boss were sure it must have been put in writing at the time, but you can't find it now? I'm not telling you what's right or wrong in this instance. I'm saying that you have to know what you consider to be right or wrong. And then stand by it. So where would you draw your line? I've been asked to do things I didn't like. I've been asked to do things I found unpleasant. I've been asked to do things I found extremely irksome, but whenever I've been asked to cross my line which thankfully in a long business career has been only once or twice I was able to say, 'No', and stick to it. And each time I got a pat on the back rather than a trip to the Job Centre.
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