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4 Reasons Smart Leaders Know When to Stop Playing It Safe
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Ask yourself what makes you happy
An opportunity should not only be viewed by the benefits it provides.
Knowing how the opportunity will make you happy should also have an influence on your decisions.
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Be willing to gamble on yourself
Moving on in life is possible if you have a good understanding and knowledge of yourself.
Believe in yourself that you are able to figure out a way forward.
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Double down
Finding a good opportunity may leave you to put everything in to make it work, and the confidence to move beyond your safety nets.
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The safe thing may not be the right thing
Life challenges us. We have the ability to meet those challenges if we believe we can.
Consider how you got past other challenges to give you confidence to handle the next one.
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People try desperately to hang on to antiquated ways of doing business because of a false sense of security. They believe that they can maintain their old ideas indefinitely, even if all evidence shows the contrary.
Question everything
Questioning everything could help you to spot problems and create a culture of understanding and action.
What does this business look like in five years? What are our customers worrying about today? What will concern them tomorrow? Where are we failing to communicate? Are we capitalizing on all our strengths? What opportunities are we missing?
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Align your decisions with your vision
Develop a presales waiting list
.... with your early supporters. Get people excited in advance. There is a risk if the production run goes south, but this is a good way to pay for early production costs.
You can’t take “no” for an answer
Just because somebody tells you no, that’s their limitation.
Just keep pressing forward until you feel you’ve come to the end of the path, but do not let the end of your path be because someone else does not believe in your idea.
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Why Interviewers Ask It
This introductory question serves as an icebreaker to lend an easy flow to the conversation. It helps the recruiter to get to know you in terms of hard and soft skills.
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How to build your response
- Present: Talk a little bit about what your current role is, the scope of it, and possibly a recent achievement.
- Past: Tell the interviewer how you got there and/or mention a past experience that’s relevant to the job and company you’re applying for.
- Future: Continue with what you’re looking to do next and why you’re interested in this job.
Tailor Your Answer
Interviewers want to know how your answer about yourself is relevant to the position and company you’re applying for.
This is an opportunity to articulate why you’re interested and how your objective fulfills their goals. In order to do that, spend some time researching the company. If your answers resonate with them, it shows that you really understand the role.