IDG Contributor Network: Underrated at work? Here’s why

A widely quoted statistic about people at work goes something like this: “a significant majority of workers believe their capability and performance is above average for people in their jobs.” To anyone with experience of working life, that sounds vaguely plausible. But the mind-numbing insanity implicit in this statement — which, incidentally, research has broadly confirmed — is typically just ignored. The topic is placed into the “too difficult to cope with&