RE: Getting along despite interpersonal skills

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

Most of what you say is true.  I was a hard-core NYC high-pressure sales rep
who was hired because of how I did things. We'd worked together on the east
coast and when he started his company in Sacramento, asked me to come out to
do what I did, the way I did it.

We forgot that there is a difference between NYC and Northern CA. In one
area, I was rewarded because "making the sale" was what you were supposed to
do. OTOH, in Sacramento, it was to play nice together.

I only say this because the person being discussed, the one with poor
interpersonal skills, might have been me...do what you gotta do to get the
document written...we're not here to like each other, then finds himself in
a whole different environment, being dinged now for what was rewarded
before.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
NY: 212-414-6656
Dayton: 732-438-3372
"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream
of things that never were, and ask why not?"
-----Robert Francis Kennedy, 1968 presidential campaign

> John, just taking your story at face value, it seems to me 
> that you weren't a good
> fit in that organization. You may have great people skills, 
> but for some reason they
> availed you nought in the setting you described. The two 
> things you report show that
> you did not follow "The Golden Rule" (Business Edition): He 
> Who Has The Gold Makes
> The Rules. <g> Rather than protecting your boss's a$$, you 
> bruised his ego. Rather
> than find a way to work within the CFO's rules, you seemed to 
> go out of your way to
> do it your way.
> 
> Those are classic ways to lose a job, no matter how good 
> one's performance is. I
> guess not all of our people skills work in all situations.

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