Ok, today I came accross another b-shit article called "No" is the New "Yes". Since I am heavily looking for a job I assumed that it was another article about handling rejection. But it was not, it was actually about being able to reject.
Read it, it is about time management, it tells about reprioritizing your life by saying no :
http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2012/01/no-is-the-new-yes-four-practic.html
The dude who writes it, Tony, has a point. I have been practising the 'No' a lot on my boss Xanax and on our sales team. But it doesn't work.
It doesn't work because when you are a middle manager that's miserable, you have no power over your boss, and neither to your team or other teams who's boss are more 'senior' than you.
But what does Tony Schwartz think about the consequences of saying no to your boss or to other teams? Because let's face it, you spend most of your days doing your boss' job or working for your colleagues that are either 'busy' or uncapable. So how do you say no? Who's gonna do the shit if you don't?
Philip Focker says no to me all the time, he just gives me plain 'no-I-won't-do-it' in my face. He pretends he is busy when I know he is not. So I want to fire him.
That would be the consequence for him, being fired. He is only lucky to be friend with Xanax that's all.
So please Tony, write about how to say no and the consequences. And please don't quote Gandhi and don't finish your shit with Carpe Diem, not modern.
Also Tony, it is sooo true when you say : 'Saying no, thoughtfully, may be the most undervalued capacity of our times.' because most recruitment agents and hiring managers don't have the balls to actually contact you to reject you!
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