I've spent 23+ years on a climb up the corporate ladder with the last 8 as a CFO.
I'll teach you everything you need to know about how to grow your career in the next 7 minutes:
1. Forget about work-life balance
I'll teach you everything you need to know about how to grow your career in the next 7 minutes:
1. Forget about work-life balance
2. Work smart AND hard
3. Say Yes to everything then figure it out
4. Leaders like team players who make their lives easier
5. Your best career hack will be the partner you choose to marry
6. Get yourself in as many sink or swim situations as possible and SWIM
3. Say Yes to everything then figure it out
4. Leaders like team players who make their lives easier
5. Your best career hack will be the partner you choose to marry
6. Get yourself in as many sink or swim situations as possible and SWIM
7. If you want the promotion, do the job
8. You're paid for value not hours
9. Give, give, give and then ask
10. Make yourself redundant
11. Hire your replacement
8. You're paid for value not hours
9. Give, give, give and then ask
10. Make yourself redundant
11. Hire your replacement
12. Don't take things personally. 98% of the time it isn't about you
13. When it is about you, choose how you are going to respond
14. 20% of your focus determines 80% of your results
15. Have a beginner's mindset
16. Be humble and curious
13. When it is about you, choose how you are going to respond
14. 20% of your focus determines 80% of your results
15. Have a beginner's mindset
16. Be humble and curious
17. If you come with problems, have solutions
18. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, to a point
19. Nobody likes a whiner. Don't be one
20. Learn when and how to ask
21. No ask, no get
18. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, to a point
19. Nobody likes a whiner. Don't be one
20. Learn when and how to ask
21. No ask, no get
22. Learn how to listen
23. Speak less & ask more questions
24. Focus on the other person's needs
25. You need to have hard conversations
26. Always focus on the win-win situations
23. Speak less & ask more questions
24. Focus on the other person's needs
25. You need to have hard conversations
26. Always focus on the win-win situations
27. Be an expert generalist
28. Go deep and then go wide
29. Combine multiple skills into your superpower
30. Learn to write and speak to super-charge your skills
31. Focus on technical skills early and build up your EQ to lead teams
28. Go deep and then go wide
29. Combine multiple skills into your superpower
30. Learn to write and speak to super-charge your skills
31. Focus on technical skills early and build up your EQ to lead teams
32. Sel-awareness - understand how you show up to others
33. Self-mastery - choose how you show up
34. Seek to understand others' lives
35. Put yourself in their shoes
36. Choose compassion
33. Self-mastery - choose how you show up
34. Seek to understand others' lives
35. Put yourself in their shoes
36. Choose compassion
37. When things go well, credit your team. When they go wrong, take the blame
38. It isn't what happens that matters, it's how you react to what happens
39. Praise your team in public, criticize or correct them in private
38. It isn't what happens that matters, it's how you react to what happens
39. Praise your team in public, criticize or correct them in private
40. Plan tomorrow today
41. Show up early every day
42. Get the big tasks done first
43. You can't multitask - Have deep focus blocks
44. Minimize meetings if you can - make the most of the ones you have
Bonus, if you're only focused on your career, you miss the point of it all.
41. Show up early every day
42. Get the big tasks done first
43. You can't multitask - Have deep focus blocks
44. Minimize meetings if you can - make the most of the ones you have
Bonus, if you're only focused on your career, you miss the point of it all.
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