The Rise Up

Not until recently did I ask my current management staff about what impression people had of me in the past. I guess because I never cared as I had a job to do and never let anything or anyone get in my way, but now that I’m writing these blogs it came up and I was not prepared for what came out of their mouths. Not in so many words the impression I left on people is that I was the Tasmanian Devil. From the moment I walked in the door, I wanted to know everything about everything. This is what makes me the jack of all trades. People found it intimidating that I was able to learn the inner-workings of their job and departments, so quickly and willing to make suggestions for improving people and departments that I did not even work in. I would literally turn a department upside down, put all the pieces back together in a cohesive, efficient, and more productive manner and then give it back to the person who should have done it. That person would then dislike me as their entire staff admired my abilities over theirs.

And then there was the bomb they dropped on me that the majority owner and I were perceived to be having an inappropriate relationship. What no one realized was that the majority owner trusted me more than his entire management staff and we spoke regularly about the many shortcomings of the company structure and inabilities of senior management. All the while, I was not a member of his senior management staff. I was, however, a trusted confidant that was truthful with him about business and his own shortcomings. In some instances, I found myself being his moral compass for making decisions. To set the record straight the majority owner and I have never had anything but a business relationship. So, for everyone that thinks I slept my way to the top, I did not. If I was a man writing this blog, I would not even have to bring this up, but because I’m a woman and he is a man, I had to waste this paragraph on the stupidity of others making excuses for a female’s success.

What I did for the majority owner was something no one else could do for him and many that have worked for him would never believe. I stood by him while others were taking advantage of him. I saw him differently than they did. He exposed his weaknesses to me and asked me for help without asking. He brought me into his world for help. He knew he was being taken advantage of, but he did not know how to stop it. He is not a good judge of character. He took face value as truth and allowed people to continually manipulate him into believing they were grander than they were. He surrounded himself with book smart people to compensate for what he considered his weaknesses. What he failed to realize is that his shortcomings did not make him any less intelligent, but he overcompensated for them.

You can read the rest of this blog post on my website where it was originally published along with all of my other work:?https://www.highheelboss.com/post/the-rise-up

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