Your professional relationships aren’t great because you’re friends with everyone you work with. Professional relationships turn skills & connections into value & growth. When evaluating the value of a relationship, people become too fixated on the level of power and “potential” that they never actually use.
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Effort-based measurement of productivity is fucking stupid. If you are paying or being paid hourly -and meaningful work is not being performed each hour- congratulations, you are discouraging progress.
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Day-to-day busywork wastes opportunities; it hurts you, your leadership, your company, and your customers. Say no.
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Sooner or later you’ll get interviewed, For a job, promotion, change, projects, etc. Interviewing has lots of stupid rules you can override.
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If your leaders say change is too hard or “this is the way we have always done things” – get the fuck out.
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Modern opportunities are winner take all because of the speed and scale of innovation. It’s about about how fast you can turn the tide of your company.
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If most of your time is spent on extraneous tasks, get ready to get fucked by a current or new competitor before you have time to take advantage of that wonderful 401(k) matching.
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Specializing is a delicate balance. If you overdo it, you will become obsolete or niche yourself out. If you underdo it, you’ll get overlooked in favor of focused people.
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