Hello Freewiters,

Pada kesempatan kali ini saya akan mengajak untuk membahas mengapa orang yang pintar sering kalah di kantor.

Pernahkah bertanya kenapa orang pintar sering kalah di kantor? Mereka sering kalah dikantor bukan karena skill mereka rendah tetapi karena salah memainkan permainan. Pekerjaan paling rapi, analisis paling rasional namun jarang dihargai, dikantor kerja keras belum tentu memenangkan permainan di kantor.

Inilah realitas pahitnya bahwa kantor merupakan arena politik sosial, dan tempat semacam ini bukanlah tempat yang cocok untuk adu kecerdasan. Yang akan bertahan lama bukanlah yang paling pintar, tetapi yang paling bisa mengelola persepsi.

Yang pintar sering fokus ke logika yang rasional bukan memahami emosi, sering kali menghindari konflik agar kelihatan dewasa dan berfikir hasil kerjalah yang akan berbicara. Namun, fakta pahitnya hasil kerja jarang berbicara.

Di kantor, persepsi lebih unggul daripada performa. Yang memiliki persepsi bagus akan dianggap kompeten sehingga akan sering dipercaya dan efek selanjutnya akan dinaikan jenjang karirnya. Persepsi bukanlah yang paling benar, tetapi yang paling dapat meyakinkan.

Artikel ditulis dalam Bahasa Indonesia dan diterjemahkan dalam Bahasa Inggris melalui Google Translate.

Hello Freewiters,

On this occasion I will invite you to discuss why smart people often lose at the office.

Have you ever asked why smart people often lose at the office? They often lose at the office not because their skills are low but because they play the game wrong. The neatest work, the most rational analysis but rarely appreciated, hard work at the office does not necessarily win the game at the office.

This is the bitter reality that the office is an arena for social politics, and this kind of place is not a suitable place for a battle of wits. The ones who will survive the longest are not the smartest, but the ones who can best manage perception.

The smart ones often focus on rational logic rather than understanding emotions, often avoid conflict to appear mature and think that the results of their work will speak for themselves. However, the bitter truth of the results of work is rarely talked about.

In the office, perception trumps performance. Those who have good perception will be considered competent so they will often be trusted and the subsequent effect will be an increase in their career ladder. Perception is not the most correct, but it is the most convincing.

Articles are written in Indonesian and translated into English via Google Translate.

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