I know that you are well and truly tired of commentary on the election but something really struck home to me when I was watching Joe Hockey and other members of the Coalition on the election coverage on Saturday night.
We were watching people being retrenched in front of our eyes.
And this happens every 3 years.
That’s a tough working environment. Every two-and-a-half years they have to spend 6 months justifying why they should keep their job based on their performance over the past 2 or so years.
Politicians have to find out what their boss – the public – expect of them, and then deliver on these expectations.
While the political career landscape is starkly transparent thanks to 24/7 media, our career is also subject to regular scrutiny, albeit in a less public sense. Most companies hold formal performance reviews every year and, if our performance is not up to scratch, then we could find ourselves out of work.
So, to learn from the Coalition’s mistakes, make sure you know what is expected of you; deliver on these expectations; and reinvent yourself every ten years or so.
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