After all, shouldn't we value our work as much as that best selling traditionally published author does?
Not only to
they not value our work the way they should, they also seem to think we don't have the capacity to think and reason and question.
Writers and cover artists are both artists, and we know that people often don't value our work.
If you don't value your work enough to be paid for it, then why should they?
Clients are PITA clients when they don't value your work, when they treat you like a servant or are just generally rude, when they don't get back to you in a timely fashion (and so force you to finish their project in a rush!)
What Melissa says is true — if people do
not value your work or have faith in your abilities, pouring your soul out for them will ultimately be a waste.
If your practice is filled with clients who don't value your work, who are price sensitive, or whose work you just don't feel like doing, you won't have room in your practice to take on the kind of work you really want.
If you don't value the work your agent is doing, you have probably worked with the wrong agents.
Not exact matches
Reading it might be worth considering if this is a subject you're
not familiar with,
not only for the inherent
value in expanding your horizons, but also as greater empathy has been shown to improve leadership, further customer understanding, and help teams
work together better.
The lesson for other business leaders is pretty clear: there's huge
value in
not just saying you support
work - life balance and flexibility in your employee manual or company
values, but in actually acting like that's true.
And, of course, the ultimate jury on whether this
works is still out because of that old adage: the
value of anything ain't what you say it is; it's what someone else is willing to pay you for it.
If someone is producing
work for your company, he or she shouldn't be a stranger to you or your business but rather feel inspired by your mission and
values and feel as much a member of your team as your 9 - to - 5 employees.
However, opening those channels can help the employee feel
not only
valued but motivated to experiment on what
works and what doesn't.
Not just because we have a shared history, but because of our shared
values,
work rate and ambition.
And the
value the Canadian office brings to the company is
not only a financial contribution, but also knowledge about what
works and what doesn't.
«In the early days, when my
work was
not as great, I was serving a different client base, I was adding
value to them because my prices were so much cheaper.
At the end of the day, it's
not about if sales development reports to sales, marketing, or the CEO, it's about what's
working to communicate your brand's
value and how your company provides a solution to a problem that your customers are facing.
This is incredibly difficult, especially in an industry that very few people grow up dreaming of
working in (
not a lot of web developers that always wanted to build a quilting website), but the
value of a leadership team can be judged by their ability to attract and keep the right talent.
Just because you lack the passion for something you currently do doesn't mean that that
work doesn't have
value.
Similar to a marriage, a business relationship will
not prosper if the partners are constantly at odds over
values or even over basic
working styles.
Goldfein said part of the reason for that continued slide was that money was
not the main focus for many pilots but rather the «
value proposition» of
working with highly skilled people on meaningful missions.
«The real
value of what we're doing is in the community and
not in the space and features,» says Tony Bacigalupo, the founder of New
Work City, another co-working space in downtown Manhattan.
But, taking it a giant step forward, such leaders should especially prevail in male - dominated, female - patronizing
work cultures that don't fully recognize or
value the contributions of their female peers and colleagues.
Even if you aren't familiar with the scientific
value of his
work, you know his name — it's synonymous with scientific intelligence.
Millennials definitely don't want to
work for a company that crushes their creative will or doesn't
value their opinions.
Their workplace is frequently a pressure - cooker environment,
working conditions are often poor, team members are
not valued as human beings, and colleagues view one another as competitors and threats,» Mackey wrote in his 2013 book Conscious Capitalism, co-authored with Raj Sisodia.
«The words «seasonality» and «fast food» are rarely used together, but at Sweetgreen, we believe that the two don't have to be mutually exclusive — it just takes a commitment to standing behind our food ethos and
working with farmers that share the same
values,» Jammet said in a statement.
While I have seen this feature of AdWords
work successfully before, this feature by default likely won't provide any
value to your campaigns unless you are first giving them a huge audience list to
work from.
«To get the full change to happen, we probably need
not only greater representation of women, but we need to see also a cultural shift in organizations that really places greater
value on gender equity in the workplace, and makes it more legitimate and acceptable for women to lend a helping hand to other women in the
work place.»
In the best companies, people don't come for the job, they come to be part of the vision and to spend their time in a place that
values and appreciates them doing
work that makes a difference.
«We are
working with clients who want to exclude from their portfolios weapons manufacturers or other companies that don't align with their
values,» BlackRock spokesman Ed Sweeney told CNBC.
It just wasn't
working for me... I didn't know until later in my career, in terms of how important
values of a company are.
His reaction post, now topping 41,000 likes and nearing 3,000 comments, states that he, too, has an image on his office wall to remind him of the
value of hard
work, rather «what happens when you need a plumber but can't find one.»
Even though some of the best talent
working for small businesses these days is young and doesn't always see the
value in things like healthcare or life insurance, business owners will be better able overall to attract and retain good employees by offering those benefits.
And the politicians in Washington who are
working to curtail basic benefits such as health care and food stamps plainly won't consider the
value of spending trillions on a new social - welfare scheme.
Employees say: «KPMG is a great place to
work because
not only do they place a great deal of emphasis on the
value of
working hard, but they also place emphasis on the
value of enjoying the benefits that come along with this hard
work.
When companies, departments or even individual managers can
not agree on a consistent course of action, employees will typically start to discount the
value of their
work because of the amount of wasted effort «rowing» in different directions.
«In responding to this incident — indeed in responding to this election — we need to hear each other's stories,
not slogans, we need to
work towards understanding,
not scoring points, and we need to find a way to move forward that respects and
values each and every member of our community,» Superintendent Shawn Lewis - Lakin said in a statement.
The purpose is
not to impose set
values, but rather to empower leaders to leverage their individual morals to drive deeper meaning and impact to their
work.
But as she
worked her way through the self - assessment and began tweaking how she ran the business — putting together an incentive structure for employees, letting go of clients that didn't align with LimeRed's
values — revenue rose.
Companies don't want to just sit on money, much for the same reason that investors don't like holding piles of cash either: Inflation erodes the
value of the cash, so putting it to
work makes sense.
If people do
not share the same
value and culture, it is hard to build rapport and it will make the
work more difficult.
That said, I'm a mother of four and I
value quality time with my kids that doesn't revolve around
work.
What Hastings came to realize is that regardless of how smart or even how productive such employees might be, they can actually begin to rip an organization apart from the inside if they don't buy into the organization's
values and embrace
working collaboratively.
If there isn't upfront agreement on how the teams
work together and deliver united
value to the business, the relationship becomes fractured.
Using the example of speaking to your boss, avoid saying, «I enjoy
working with you but I feel my
work is
not always
valued.»
While it's obvious that you want to hire the best, let's
not underestimate the
value of getting the best to
work together.
That's
not necessarily a good tradeoff, especially for millennials, who
value free time and
work - life balance a lot more than previous generations.
Traditionally, these artists would
not work together because there are no normal means in an agency to set up these collaborations, yet these unusual projects create tremendous
value.
The paradox of my leaving home again in 2012 (having already left once for college) was that I would
not be where I am now (
working for technology company Waze in New York City) had it
not been for the
values and lessons instilled in me during my 19 or so years of growing up in California's Central Valley.