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Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
The best early career advice I can think of:
1. If your boss smokes, smoke. It's an extra hour of 1v1 time a day.
2. Get in an hour before you think you need to.
3. Don't be too good to do the coffee runs.
4. Come in every day dressed like you're going to a client... See more
The most bitter people you’ll ever meet are white-collar workers in their late 30s who took gifted classes in elementary school and AP classes in high school, got 3.8 GPAs in college, and now make $150-200k in corporate middle-management jobs after failing to develop the personality or the social skills requisite for leadership and... See more
Robert Sterlingx.comI remember a McKinsey women’s event where fifteen or twenty young consultants from the San Francisco office sat around a glossy oval table listening to a junior partner speak about her successful ascent. The topic turned to work-life balance, as it always did at such events, and she advised us as follows: If there is a household task where it... See more
One of the first questions that new acquaintances ask one another is “What do you do?” or “What field are you in?” You need to be able to answer that question with no more than about 20 seconds of description. What is more, you need to answer that question in a way that sounds absolutely fascinating and that almost compels your interlocutor to ask
... See moreRabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
You have to find ways to make sure that the wage paid to you is a bargain. You have to find out what most needs doing, and you have to do it. You have to know when you have made a mistake, and you must bring it to the attention of your boss or supervisor . . . oops! I mean, your customer.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
Thinking about our career, we might think in abstractions like “a job.” But really a career is made up of a bunch of different things like a salary, an identity, relationships, status, a sense of meaning, and so on. It is often easier to find a fit if you unbundle these things, and think about the parts that matter to you individually. Do you... See more