Managers - do you appreciate ambition?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:+1 it depends.

In addition to everything already said, you have to actually be doing the work, and it needs to be good.

There's a very ambitious employee in me office who, like you, has made themselves very visible. Problem is this person is too thinly-stretched to actually do their job, and when they do it, their work is mediocre at best. People like this have a definite ceiling.

And who spread them too thin?

Themselves. People volunteer for things that are outside of their job all the time…and create their own issues.

I go back to the old joke that volunteering for United Way is a way of advertising that you don't have enough work

[Anonymous]

As a manager, I like somebody who has ambition and actually knows what they are doing. It is the ones that have an ego and are still wrong-- and to make it worst they always fail to see how they are wrong. If you are ambitious I will try my best to get you promoted and move up as quickly as possible.

[Anonymous]

Ambition is good, but your actual work better back it up.

It irritates the H*LL out of me when I have a overconfident employee who does poor work, and doesn't care to learn from their mistakes and put forth maximum effort. I (and other Sr. Managers) quickly sideline them.

The fact that you state your excellent "networking" skills, but don't talk about your actual skills, knowledge and productivity leads me to be skeptical of you