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You own your career
... and you have more of an ability to shape it than anybody else.
No matter how many people are on the sidelines helping you, ignoring you, or working against you, your career and your life are our responsibility.
Don’t blame your manager, your significant other, your friends, or your company if you don’t have the career that you want.
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See yourself succeeding
There is research that shows if you can create a clear visualization of yourself achieving the outcome you want, you prime yourself to act in a way that is consistent with what you imagine.
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Treat your manager as a coach
A good manager’s job is to help you and the rest of your team get better results. So it would be logical that she should be invested in your career. When you do better, then by extension, she does better.
Hence, your manager should be on your side, who wants you to succeed, and who is will...
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Defining your career
Your career is defined by your skills and how you’ve used them, not by any external measure of your progress.
If you focus exclusively on improving your skills and your impact on your organization (or to the world at large), the promotions and raises tend to come as a byproduct.
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Don’t pick a career based on “average salaries” or employment numbers. When you’re striving to be great at what you do, the “averages” don’t matter.
When it comes to any field, the people who strive to be great have more than enough money and success. And everyone else fights over sc...
How to better support your team
- You should always be asking for peer review on a people management problem before you take action, whether that’s from your own manager or your HR team.
- Don’t blame, own. As a manager, it’s all too easy to abdicate responsibility and blame the per...
Career: motivation and manipulation
The career is a device that businesses and managers can use as a motivation to get the deference and feigned enthusiasm that they want from employees. It’s a great tool, in part because career arcs are real. Perceptions and reputations matter and offices have promotional structur...
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