I am always talking about “adding more value” or “working at a higher level of value”.
How do you know if what you are working on is valuable? Are some jobs more valuable than others?
One of my favorite stories I read in a book long ago, was about a a CEO of a bank who walked in one day, and saw a young intern looking dejected in the bank lobby. Read More
Your JobYour job description is not a life sentence – you can change it. You need to change it.
If you want to make more progress in your career, (and suffer less along the way), you need to rethink how you work. Read More
In a struggling economy, companies are asking employees to go without raises and bonuses.
Do your employees get angry and check out? Or do they keep working hard with little to no cash incentive to do so?
The good news is that humans work for more reasons than money — and money is not even at the top of the list. Read More
No one cares how hard you work.
… So make sure you are getting somewhere.
My goal for this blog is to provide useful insights and practical ideas so you can:
Step up the value and relevance of your work to have a bigger impact on the business, and a better career. Read More
When I was in my early 20’s I learned an important lesson.
I was working in a start-up company and had gone 3 years without a raise.
I went to the CEO and asked for a raise.
He said, Why? Read More
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I talk about focusing on strengths a lot.
In fact, if there is any secret formula for success… it is thousands of years old, and it is:
Really know yourself, know your strengths, and put yourself in a position to be doing what you are good at most of the time. Read More
Hi Everyone,
I hope you get a chance to celebrate, share time with the people you care most about, re-charge, and get 2010 off to a good start.
So many people have joined the blog this year. Read More
Here is a useful checklist of the things that make the difference between careers that break through and careers that stall.
Feel Free to forward it to others!
Are you working on the right things?
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This topic comes up all the time in one form or another, so I thought I would put some structure around it, and give you some ideas, if you are dealing with a bad boss.
There are 4 categories of bad bosses
I’ve listed them in order of how
personally damaging they are to work for:
1. Read More
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Highly successful people are successful because they get a lot of help, not because they are too good to need it.
You are not expected to know everything. Really. So pretending that you do doesn’t have much of a payoff, especially if it keeps you from getting the job done. Read More
