If One Is Winning, Who Is…
Before outlining my Wicked Winning Ways, it is worth acknowledging a simple commercial reality: outcomes in organisational life are rarely distributed evenly. Where one professional advances with appropriate momentum, another like my most recent Bids & Tenders Manager may find his/her trajectory… recalibrated. This is not, in my experience, a flaw in the system so much as a reflection of how performance environments naturally allocate opportunity.
The disciplines I describe are designed to ensure that, wherever such moments of vendetta fulfilment recalibration arise, readers are positioned on the more favourable side of the equation. If you are someone unwilling to step over the corpses of your colleagues who prefers that advancement occur without consequence to others, you may find the following material somewhat confronting. In that case, it may be perfectly reasonable to pause here. For those prepared to screw the next person over engage with the practical realities of modern corporate life, however, Winning Ways have proven remarkably reliable.
The Winning Ways Framework
For ease of reference, I group these disciplines under what I call my Winning Ways. They are neither complicated nor theoretical. When applied with malice and extreme prejudice care and diligence, they create the conditions in which capable professionals can progress with appropriate momentum, while less adaptable contributors tend to self-select out of the forward path.
Each Winning Way addresses a competitive co-worker or subordinate who just won’t fall into line familiar friction point within modern organisations: misaligned expectations, unnecessary scrutiny, and the persistent misconception that visibility and value are always positively correlated. With the right posture and narrative discipline, most of these obstacles can be resolved well before they mature into something requiring formal attention.
In the entries that follow, I will outline these Wicked Winning Ways in practical terms. Readers are, of course, free to adopt whichever elements align with their own leadership journey. I would simply observe that those who apply the framework with consistency tend to find executive confidence strengthens, organisational resistance diminishes, and career momentum becomes considerably easier to sustain at the expense of others.
