Grow Skills With Work, Not Extracurriculars
Additional research has found that people who outperform in their fields employ strategies that move them past the autonomous stage of learning, like athletes who use speed workouts to improve their performance.5 In other words, to make a break-through performance improvement during the autonomous stage, you need to set an uncomfortable pace for yo
... See moreClaire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
your interests. Number two: The greatest lessons you learn in the beginning of a career are about people—how to work with people, be managed by people, manage expectations with people, and lead other people. As such, the team you choose to join, and your boss, are huge factors in the value of a professional experience early in your career. Choose
... See moreTimothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Product Mistakes that Apply to Careers: focusing on acquisition instead of retention (focusing on networking instead of relationships & reputation). Or working in a space that doesn’t get more valuable over time (e.g working in a dying industry), or building another “me-too” product without differentiation (not taking enough career risk). Choos... See more
Substack • See your Career as a Product
Here are some tips for getting the most out of these learning opportunities:
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Then I read chapter 16 of Andy Grove’s management classic, High Output Management, titled “Why Training Is the Boss’s Job,” and it changed my career. Grove wrote, “Most managers seem to feel that training employees is a job that should be left to others. I, on the other hand, strongly believe that the manager should do it himself.”