Great Employees and Great Company

Jeff Harden share his thought on 2 interesting articles.

The first articles is about great employees and their characteristics that differ them from good employees. In summary, great employees have 8 qualities and the qualities are:

1. They ignored job description
2. They are eccentric
3. They know when to return
4. They publicly praise
5. They privately complaint
6. They are outspoken
7. They like to prove others wrong
8. They are always fiddling

Full article can be read here.

On the second article, the author is talking about things that employer shouldn't ask their employee to do. It is either ridiculous or annoying. In summary, there are 9 things that employer shouldn't ask their employee to do and those things are:

1. Pressure employee to attend the company's 'social' events.
2. Ask another employer to do things that other employee is doing
3. Pressure employee to donate to charity
4. Ask employee to do certain task at mealtime
5. Ask employee to evaluate themselves
6. Ask employee to evaluate their peers
7. Reveal personal information in the interest of 'team building'
8. Ask employee to alert when you are 'veer off course'
9. Ask employee to do something that you don't do

Full article can be read here.

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p/s: I think I have the qualities of great employees and based on past experience, it is true of what Jeff Harden shares about employers although not all employers have all those things....