Does hard work really guarantee success in Singapore?

[Les grossman]

https://www.domainofexperts.com/2023/10/does-hard-work-really-guarantee-success.html

 

[True Believer]

The Govt has shown us that nepotism and cronyism guarantees promotion; success at the workplace has nothing to do with one's performance, but whether your boss likes you.

 

[True Believer]

Most of us have been brought up to believe that working hard and displaying competence at the workplace should be rewarded. However, many who excel at work not only get ignored, but marginalised. In the world of office politics, there is a clear and present danger about being too competent in what we do. Those who shoulder their duties with customary aplomb, risk showing their bosses that they are not only talented, but evidently too talented for their own good.

 

[True Believer]

If such employees display any more brilliance, their supervisors might fear being replaced by the very subordinates whose work appraisals they graded favourably. Many rising stars in a company receive a rude shock at their next performance review; instead of the expected glowing appraisal, their bosses criticise their decision-making and marginalise their contributions. Whether such talents resign in anger or are forced out, the organisation loses a vital contributor because of a paranoid boss trying to sabotage a subordinate perceived as a threat to his job.