(If) What's best for you is making the most money you can.
and .. if you want to achieve this by doing the least work possible, and creating work for others, they will not help you be more successful at your job.
A real successful team, person, and company will all believe in getting more work done with less collective effort. So, if I make my job easier, it shouldn't make your job harder.
Sadly, too many people in management don't get team building, team development, but instead narrow minded views and babysitting everyone through it.
Edit: Added the word If at the beginning, I was examining what I interpreted the previous commenter to be saying.
> What's best for you is making the most money you can.
I can't even begin to fathom that mindset. No amount of money is worth my health. None. I walked out on a great-paying job that turned into a clusterfuck and voluntarily did nothing for a year for exactly that reason.
I worked way below market for quite a while for that reason.
I'm working somewhat below market even now for that reason.
I keep score in happiness and satisfaction, not dollars.
> I keep score in happiness and satisfaction, not dollars.
The only way to win at society's collective pissing contest is to opt out.
I believe that this is the secret of work: find the work that gives you more satisfaction than pain, and become the very best you can at it. The money will follow, and it will no longer control you. What controls you now is a sort of purpose that you find through your work. Mind you, it doesn't negate the fact that there will be unpleasant/unsexy things to do at work. (That is one reason why you're getting paid for it, after all.) And it may even make it harder, as you now have a greater emotional involvement in your work.
Purposelessness will suck you dry. I think people instinctively know this when they choose salary over happiness, they just believe it to be inevitable.
and .. if you want to achieve this by doing the least work possible, and creating work for others, they will not help you be more successful at your job.
A real successful team, person, and company will all believe in getting more work done with less collective effort. So, if I make my job easier, it shouldn't make your job harder.
Sadly, too many people in management don't get team building, team development, but instead narrow minded views and babysitting everyone through it.
Edit: Added the word If at the beginning, I was examining what I interpreted the previous commenter to be saying.