One Fortunate Mistake that Led to a Promotion in my Career…and Could Happen to you too

Imagine this. I had been with a company for 3 months and had spent several weeks cleaning the software code in our live website. I had finally resolved most of the most serious issues. I was happy.

And then, BANG, someone had added new issues!

How would you react when you feel that people simply don’t care?

In my previous job, I would shown all my anger and frustration. We had made a commitment to do better, I had spent weeks improving things and, yet, someone did it again. I wanted to shout how disrespectful that was.

But this time, I decided to try a different approach after reading Dale Carnegie’s “How to Make friends and Influence People”

I crafted an email appealing to the professional pride of my 25 colleagues. Sent it to our group email and went home.

The following morning everyone was talking about my email.

When I arrived to work the following morning, it seemed that everyone was talking to me about my email. Even people beyond our group of developers.

Turns out that I had sent the email to everyone in the 200+ people department.

“I’d like you to change how this team works…”