Alfred Lord Tennyson Companies can get seduced by new opportunities and expand too quickly, causing ripples through all levels of the workforce, or an employee may reach an educational milestone and see reward for his or her effort. When company and employee expectations diverge, employees may find themselves caught in circumstances beyond their control and left wondering if they should cut their losses or hang on. It's not just how much you can do. It's how much you can get other people to do, too. Sometimes it's just as important to know your limits.
Optimal productivity requires self-knowledge.
Rather than denying my limitations, I felt that knowing them and planning accordingly might be a better strategy. Not everyone wants the typical trappings that come with lengthy tenure in the upper reaches of corporate America. Many executives, no longer enamored of steady management jobs, are signing up to be in effect, temps. They go into a company for a short period to fix problems for a daily rate, without all the bells and whistles that accompany so many pay packages. In essence, they like to make changes and move on, rather than manage a stable situation or jockey for position in the hierarchy of a large corporation.