My recent blog post, Get Over It. Turn Your Camera On drew so much feedback and so many comments that I wanted to take an opportunity to follow up.
The world seems to be split into two groups on this:
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Category: Power and Respect
Get over it. Turn your camera on.
The Dreaded “Video Phone”
If you did not grow up with a camera phone, you probably remember the days of thinking about the absolute horror of a video phone.
“Can you imagine that if when people called you at home, they could see what you look like? Read More
Analysis vs. Action
How Much Analysis?
People often ask me how to judge if they are stuck in “Analysis Paralysis”.
How much study is too much?
There is no single answer here, but to answer that question, I find it useful to start with the business outcome in mind, and then to set a budget for how much study a particular plan or answer is worth. Read More
Is it worth listening if I can’t address the concerns?
Awhile back I wrote an article called, Who is worth listening to?.
It’s worth reading if you haven’t seen it, but the main point was that the goal of listening is simply to make people feel listened-to. Read More
Sponsorship and Career Risk
“Am I the only one who cares about this?”
That is the question.
Make sure you are never the only one who cares, whether it’s about your career or your work. Always ask yourself, “Who else cares about this?”
Read MoreIf there is no one at an equal or higher level than your boss who actively cares about what you are doing, there is too much risk.
Don't sink to their level
Today in this blog I want to do two things focused on helping you achieve the success you want — on YOUR terms.
1. Offer you the download of my Strategic Career Thinking webinar for free
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6 key choices for success and happiness
Our choices
As we start the new year I’ve been thinking about choices.
I realized that there are some simple, key choices that we all have immediately available to us that can help us be more true to ourselves, and become happier and more successful at work and life — no matter where we are starting from. Read More
Good things to learn from bad people
Sometimes the bad guy wins…
Clients often ask me for advice on how to deal with highly political people who are not very good at anything other than managing up. And it’s especially frustrating because it seems to be working really well for them. Read More
The business-enabling conversation many executives avoid
Missing the clues
I work as a business advisor to executives, and in doing so also I often also have 1-1 conversations with their direct reports.
I can’t count how many times, though I am having confidential conversations with each of them, I am left thinking, “Do you two ever talk to each other?” Read More
Imagined power vs. Real power and respect
People often ask me if it was hard for me to go from running really large organizations to having my own (implied — “much smaller”) company.
This was never an issue for me because I always maintained a psychological distance between the power of my role, (managing a $1B+ global business, multi-hundred-milion dollar budget, and thousands of people) and my own personal power. Read More
