What is Successful Working in an MNC?

When I have a few years behind me working for MNCs in US and India, I feel I gained a few tricks to survive ahead of game at work. Add to that when I survived a few years working in small company and learning a lot about startups, makes me think how I can help others to learn from my experiences; good bad and the ugly. Here we stick to good only.

First and foremost Learn to work with your immediate boss / manager/ lead. Why I think this is important is - if you are not aligned to your boos, you may not be able to contriubute to the company focus areas. Ask your manager what he wants from you weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly. 1:1 s are very useful way to acomlish this. If not a casual stop by as many fallow open door policy. Working closely with your immediate manager is the best way to grow.

Second one: Work well in a team setting. Show empathy to everyone around you at work. Ask if there is anything you can help. Not that you have free time, but make time to help others. One of my senior long time back told me " a busy person always find time". I sincerely believe that. Everyone has time for you when you approach right. Do not harp on improvement areas, focus on strengths of others. If some one is a quick learner ask him to check what are you doing. If some one has great triage skills, ask him or her to hear your work relates issue as 3rd party. You don't know where you get help so don't forget to ask.

Share your Knowledge: A Boss I worked for told me once. "Suresh there are two ways to survive in any organizations: hold your knowledge in your head, as you become valuble person no one would like to lose you, you will stay where you are. Instead share your knowledge and you become redundant in that role, your boss will look to grow you and give you new work". Decide if you want hold to tribal knowledge in your head or if you want to share and move ahead.

Discipline: This is my most favorite and important one for me. Be it a clinet deliverable, or your task of the day, your report needed by boss, information you need to provide for management; most of these are time bound. Will have a dead line. When you are asked for any of the deliverabels, you must first check when they are due and depending on that you schedule rest of activities. Only with discipline, I believe you get this art of managing deliverables. Studying in boarding school early in my life this is a integral part of my DNA. Hence I feel and know this takes you a long way.

Have a Good Week as you come to work on Monday.

All the content is purely my personal opinion and do not reflect do not any of the places I worked or working. Exclusively from my experience.