In the corporate world, value is the service you provide, and worth is what you are paid for that service.
We tend to neglect that it’s the value that matters to get you what you want (worth). We look up to the escalation of worth without adding value to our services. We believe that longevity of our job is the only stimulus to your incremental growth of worth, whereas it is only a trivial factor in this connection. We are oblivious to the fact that worth is value driven. People with a higher worth in an organization amount significantly to the growth of the organization, therefore they are more revered and rewarded.
When you are focused on the value and strive to increment the quality of the value addition, you give a good nudge to the worth you are given. The management holds you in high regard and prospects for your growth accordingly. There are other factors that give rise to your worth yet the dominant factor is your value or the quality of the value you add to the organization. In other words, the worth is directly proportional to the value. The case can be exemplified with the purchase of clothing; let’s say you buy a branded shirt that cost you a handsome price which you quite willingly pay on account of your trust in the quality of the shirt you will get. The quality is the value you will gain out of that exorbitant price. In comparison, an unbranded shirt won’t be that worthy yet not giving you the premier value too.
Citing the above example is to give wisdom that for premier worth, you ought to prime up the value you add to an organization. Here comes a quote from Anthony Robins; that says, “If you are doing what you have been doing, you will be getting what you have been getting” which along with the above case in point sums up that you have to upskill yourself so you can give quality value to the organization and you will be considered for the career upgradation.
In contrast, there lies the other side of the learning for those with the premier worth (the executive ones). A point to ponder for them is to mind the fact that their higher worth makes them a burden to the organization which is only justified if their value addition either outweighs or exceeds their worth. In general, people at higher positions reasons that they have come to the top or senior positions due to their value provision and that is sufficient to keep them in their positions, which is in fact their delusion and it drowns them down in their ignorance when either the value becomes redundant or out smartened by their contemporaries with better skill and attitude. It goes undeniably true that there is always an ongoing battle in the corporate world where only those survive or thrive who continually upgrade themselves and enhance the quality of the value rendition at every level of their career track.
Remember the fact that “Worth is value driven”.