The video taps into a common frustration and sense of injustice in the workplace, using strong emotional language and a relatable narrative to resonate with viewers who feel overlooked or undervalued.
Summary
The speaker argues that incompetent and politically manipulative individuals are often promoted in corporate environments, while competent and ethical employees are overlooked. The video promotes the speaker's book, "The Corporate Coward," as a way to expose and challenge this system.
Structure
1Introduction: The problem of unqualified people getting promoted.
2The 'coward' playbook: How mediocrity is rewarded.
3The threat of competence: Why good employees are overlooked.
4Personal experience: The author's own career and book.
Original caption
I have had it. And I think a lot of you have too. How did your boss get that job. Why does the wrong person keep getting promoted. The large company playbook is rewarding cowards and punishing the good ones. This video is for the great ones being punished for being great. The Corporate Coward — live on Amazon. Comment FED UP for the link. #corporateamerica #careeradvice #workplaceculture #leadership #notbornrich
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5Call to action: Share the video and the book to expose the issue.
Product placement
The Corporate Coward (book): ACTS - it is being promoted as a solution to workplace issues and is available for purchase on Amazon. Removing it would change the video's purpose. Amazon: APPEARS - it is mentioned as the platform where the book is sold. Removing it would not change what happens in the video.
Call to action
Comment FED UP for the link.
On-screen text
Time to Expose the COWARDS at work...
If you don't play politics at work and are good at your job. You're a threat.
Cowards run Companies
Time to expose them.
The Book is on Amazon
Title: THE CORPORATE COWARD
Transcript
I've had it. And I think a lot of you have too. How did your boss get that job? Why does the wrong person keep getting promoted? The large company playbook is rewarding cowards and punishing the good ones. This video is for the great ones being punished for being great. The Corporate Coward — live on Amazon. Comment FED UP for the link. #corporateamerica #careeradvice #workplaceculture #leadership #notbornrich
If you don't play politics at work and are good at your job. You're a threat. How many of us have sat in a room and asked ourselves, how does this person get promoted? How do my bosses get to where they're at? They know absolutely nothing. We've all been there. And let me tell you why. It's because mediocre people and cowards now run organizations and Fortune 500 companies. The leadership has been completely replaced by cowards. If you care about your work and you're good at what you do, you're the biggest threat to their mediocre existence and their paycheck. Therefore, they don't want you to win. They don't want you to thrive. You've been passed up on promotions because you're good at what you do. You don't play corporate politics. You say it how it is. You tell people what time it is, right? And that is the biggest threat to their mediocrity. You're going to expose them. You're going to expose them. Like we've been backstabbed. If you are a person of high honor and capable and competent, you don't get promoted anymore. It doesn't get recognized. It's actually something that they don't want in the organization. They'll say they do, but you're going to find yourself being frustrated. You're going to be frustrated. And I think it's time that we actually do something about it. We have to let these people know that they're on notice. Like, we're not going to sit back anymore. I wrote a book called The Corporate Coward on Amazon. And I feel that if it doesn't create change, at least it makes them feel completely embarrassed that we know and are calling them out. Share this with someone who is frustrated with their job. Share this with someone who is going through the same thing because they've been passed up for promotion. Someone who works hard and doesn't get recognized. Share this with your boss, right? But share this with someone who is going through the same thing. The more we expose them and call them out, they will understand that we've had enough. And hopefully, it creates change. Again, this is the corporate playbook. They don't care. And if you're new in your career and you think everything's great right now, I'm 43. 20 years of corporate America. 85, 90% of my career was amazing. Then a coward got promoted. And they said, you know what? We cannot have people like me thriving in the company. It all changed. 20 years I finally got out. And if you're not thinking it's going to happen to you, think about your best friend you grew up with from high school. Same thing with the job. Over time, you're going to realize that this wasn't what you thought it was. Maybe good now, but it is not sometime. And if you're not ready, you're going to get got. You have to get perspective. And can't assume it's not going to happen to you. The book is called Corporate Coward. It's on Amazon. Check it out. Send this to somebody so we can force change. At least we can make them embarrassed. Again, the book is called Corporate Coward. It's on Amazon. Check it out. Send this to somebody so we can force change. At least we can make them embarrassed.
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