Dear Hivers,
After reading a post from a reputed member of this site about plagiarised content on various websites by some cheats, stealing money and credit that did not belong to them legally. I looked into the ‘smart work’ part of it. I, as a marketing professional, highlighted the importance of their so-called smart work.
This story is not real, but it will give you a perfect idea of smart work and how it pays!
The story starts with a high-profile company in the technical field that advertised for a high-profile, top-level job that required high-level expertise in their project management. As usual, the company soon received over one hundred applications.
The human resources department of the company went through all the applications and sorted out ten top applicants after preliminary telephonic interviews. The remaining ten candidates who had almost similar qualifications appeared for interviews in the second round, but they rejected eight of them in the first phase based on their answers and mannerisms.
Now there were only two left in the race with almost similar degrees, similar experiences, and even a similar age group. The selectors got really confused, so they thought up a criterion to decide on the most suitable one finally.
The human resources manager provided both of them with a project and $2000 each for completion of the project. Then both of them were asked to complete a project allocated to them within a week and submit it within a week. So, finally, their selection was to based on that final project report.
One week passed, both came and submitted their project report. The management was even more confused as both reports were ditto, same… word by word. So finally, they decided to check their expenses.
Manager-Mr. A, how much did you spend on such wonderful work?
Mr. A-Sir, I spent $2500 and did a lot of research and effort, but I am glad I could get it done before the week ended.
Manager–Good job, and Mr. B, how much did you spend?
Mr. B—Sir, I spent $25 and completed the task quickly!
Manager–That sounds amazing, but how did you get that done on such a low budget?
Mr. B: That’s not a big deal, sir. I just brought a good pair of binoculars and kept following Mr. A. Wow, sir, Mr. A is really intelligent. He put a lot of effort into this job, but I just enjoyed following him.
I kept a close look at his work and jotted down every note or whatever he was doing to complete this project. The cost of the binoculars was worth it. Hello sir, do you think that was bad for $25?
Everyone present in the room smiled, and almost made up their minds!
You guessed it right. Mr. B got the job. The company got a wonderful project manager. It’s not the extra effort and extra efforts that do the trick, but it’s all about how a project is completed at a lower cost, no matter what a worker did to achieve it.
Industrial espionage is within business ethics and in demand now.
This story about smart work is fine for industrial espionage, but it is certainly not ethical if someone considers it okay to steal other people’s hard work. However, I must add that hard work is the traditional way of working, and that always pays you, and there are no changes you must incorporate into the working method, barring, of course, in certain sectors.
Finally, go for a perfect mix of smart and hard work to bring you success.