Hi friends,
Today is the last day of October so here's my running progress for this month. I downloaded this running summary from the Runtastic app which I believe is now called Adidas Running.
Overall, I'm happy that I hit my monthly target of 100 km per month. Feels so good to be able to keep up with my target again after failing for two consecutive months on August and September.
Here are some other stats that I calculated myself based on the summary.
Average distance per session: 5.19 km
Average pace: 8.24 min/km
Though I could see my pace improving compared to last month, it is still slightly above the sub 8 minutes mark which is the cut-off time for an average 10K running event. But I think I could beat the cut-off time if I keep this routine up.
I was thinking of increasing the intensity of my routine but still can't decided between clocking-in a higher mileage or doing more speed training. I guess I just have to try which one I like more.
Here's an overall progress of my running journey.
Alright, with my running summary out of the way, I would like to write about the office middleman.
As far as my working experience goes, I noticed that the people at the higher ups don't necessarily have more merits than the people who works under them. Sometimes it surprises me that something as minuscule as knowing the facts related to their job could be something that they have no knowledge about. Stuff that are widely agreed as common sense in the workspace of their field isn't so common to them at all.
When I'm seeing this infront of me, I would imprint this negative image of them being at their higher ranks just because they have their charms in the way they talk. The typical, "talking their way to the top" scenario.
Then after a few days of thinking about this, I think it's not necessarily a bad thing to have mediocre merits but sitting at the higher rank. While these people are mediocre at best at what they're suppose to do, they do have an added advantage of making their superiors feels reassured. Afterall, at the end of the day, everyone needs to feel reassured and want hear the things that they want to hear. In fact, I would go far as to say that the higher the rank of someone, the more reassurance that they want to hear from their workers. Hence, why the ones who knows how to communicate rises above the ranks even though having mediocre merits.
I believe that these people act as the middleman between the bosses and the workers. I've noticed that most workers prefer to only focus on the things that they are good at doing. Often, the work that they are good at doesn't involve establishing good communication with others. So here's the entry point for the middleman. Middleman would use their charm in providing reassurance to the boss about work while giving space to the actual workers to complete their work without any interruption of constant pressure in communication. These middleman establishes the important underlying coherence between command and action of work to be done.
Thus, this dawned on me. If you were to be a good leader, it would also make sense to focus on being the middleman. The goal is to find someone who is an expert in what they are doing. Get their expertise in delivering good results while "alleviating" their burden of having to make constant communication with bosses. By doing so, the image of hard work and importance will be embedded in you for appearing as the savior in the eyes of the superiors while managing the morale of the ones who actually do the work. Less merit people rises above the rank because they know what people around them wants. If you can identify and deliver that wants, you’ll be in good stance in the office dynamic in no time.
So be the person in the middle.
Cheers friends.
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