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When we take up a job that seems to be the mantra. Securing promotion is one of the prime motives. And one of the best ways considered to secure your promotion is to follow your boss and his edicts.

It's a time when following might not be a great strategy for promotion. Why?

1. If the situation is fraught with fear of lay-offs and your boss has vouched for your protection, just keep in mind that his head could also be on the line. If your bosses had got it right, the situation of lay-offs wouldn't have arisen in the first place.
2. If you've been following very obediently and for a good cause, most likely your boss has been seen and credited for that. Check with your boss' boss if he knows you.
3. If you've been following your boss or policies or procedures and nothing has worked until now for you, what do you think will work in the current situation?
4. Following anything or anybody has meant you've not exercised your judgment till now, and therefore, you've not realized what can work. How do you think you are going to handle the situations in the current downturn? The sooner you stop following the better.
5. When good times come again and you've only followed until then, do you think you would be in the position to make of it?
6. If you've only followed till date, good times might not be attributed to you; perhaps only to your boss in case he is lucky. Are you the harbinger of good times or the one waiting for good times?

Let the work be your own. Let the judgment be your own. Let the voice be your own.