May 15, 2013, 12:00 PM
By Bob Sullivan and Hugh Thompson
NBC Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) in ‘The Office’
Are you’re constantly overlooked for a promotion that never comes?
Do you grind away at the job you think you have to do instead of DOING the job you want to do?
Do you think your work life will get better if your boss would just [insert any of the following]: notice, retire, relax, focus, get it together, give you some help, get fired?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, conventional wisdom says to push through and try harder, but that is probably the worst career advice you’ll ever get. When you’re in a career plateau — a place where hard work stops working – you are battling one of the most powerful forces of nature: The Plateau Effect. And you’re not alone. The Plateau Effect is woven into the fabric of the universe. It’s why we get diminishing returns for our efforts, but with some battle-tested techniques you can break free. We’ve spent the past few years mining the fields of behavioral psychology, mathematics, sports, leadership and even culinary arts to find out how some of the most successful people and companies in the world have gone from stuck to success. Call your frustration a plateau, and you are bound to come up with many more constructive solutions.
Here are three:
1. Master the Art of Diversity: People, relationships, businesses and even physical processes become immune to the same techniques, the same approaches, the same solutions. Maybe your mastery of one skill, like delivering a killer PowerPoint presentation, got you where you are, but eventually any one skill tops out. Immunity is the most basic force of the Plateau Effect. If your career is in an immunity plateau we have good news: the path to getting unstuck is diversity. It might take you a lot of effort to move from an A-minus presenter to an A-plus presenter, but it requires far less effort to make big progress on a weaker skill. Try an improv comedy class to electrify your conversations with coworkers or clients. Take a career vacation and shadow a chef, or a realtor, or a winemaker for a day. You’ll think a little differently, bust through your immunity plateau and you might even find that a path outside of corporate America awaits.
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