if you have been a star all your life...

If you have been a star all your life, from a naughty kid through your adulthood...the class & club presidents, the lead singer or dancer or actress, the rookie of the year award holder, the team & project leader, the founder of experience design department, the youngest in the top management, etc, etc...

Beware.

Chances are, being the lead actor/actress under the spotlight all your life, you never ever knew, felt, experienced, understood and identified with the feelings of your teammates who wear funny costumes and play ‘tree roles’ off the limelight...or exhausting themselves arranging wardrobe/props/drinks for you behind the scene...or watching you having lots of fun from a dark corner feeling like outsiders...

Chances are, you may never discover that the best comrades you can find are often among these people, people who Can and Will change the world together with you...
(Note: with you, not for you)

When the corporate world realized it could no longer expect the employees to commit one decade or two (or 3 or 4) to corporate ladder climbing, it invented management trainee programs. What are management trainee programs for? To help future managers, we all know, understand the company and its business better, faster.
But is that all? Really?
Assigning ambitious college graduates to work as underwear promoters for 3 or 6 months just to know the "business" of a department store chain? Really?

Think about it. Especially if you have been a star all your life.