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How to Get Promoted Without Resorting to Screwing Your Boss in the Supply Closet
1. Learn how your work affects the bottom line. People want money, sex and happiness. Period. Take away all that Maslow’s Hierarchy crap, and that’s what you’re left with. Especially within an organization. The first move in your mission for advancement is to calculate the value of your achievements. To compute the profitability of your productivity. This might require some research, an interview or two, or, God forbid, having…
How to Make Yourself More Indispensable Than a Pair of Nose Plugs in a Hooters Bathroom
1. Insecurity is the great inhibitor. Insecurities are growth opportunities. “I don’t care how self-aware you get – there’s always more to learn,” says my coach Dixie Gillaspie. Once you get out of your own way, what else will be possible? 2. Mediocrity is the great deception. I hate to admit it, but sometimes mediocrity rises to the top. You can suck and still be rehired. You can be…
6 Ways to be More Creative than Thomas Edison on Acid
1. Brainstorming is the great time-waster. You don’t need another meeting. You don’t need another conference call. And you don’t need to spend another afternoon talking the life out of your idea. You need to take massive action. Today. Otherwise you’ll get hooked on the addictive power of brainstorming – when what you REALLY need is to smoke the sweet cheeba of execution. What consumes your time but isn’t…
How to Get Promoted Faster than a Wharton Graduate Working at a Wichita Waffle House
1. Prepare yourself to be promotable. First, shift from an attitude of need to an attitude of want. It’s healthier, more attractive and good practice surrendering. Second, acknowledge your own value. If you don’t, nobody else will. Third, exercise a high degree of conscious control in creating the career you want. Invite your goals into the bright light of awareness. And finally, believe you deserve and can handle abundant…
9 Ways to become a Company Your Competitors Want to Strangle with an Orange Extension Cord
1. Abundance of competition indicates unoriginality. If you’re truly unique, the only one who does what you do – the WAY that you do it – then no second-rate, chump-ass imitation should be able to hurt you. Screw the competition. Just because they’re there doesn’t mean you can’t beat them. What do you do that brings people back for more of YOU? 2. Ambition without focus is stalemate. If…
What Everybody Ought to Know about Being an Approachable Employee
1. Behavior is the broadcaster of attitude. Don’t bother announcing to people what kind of attitude you strive to maintain. Anyone who’s even (somewhat) perceptive can already tell. And here’s why: Bodies override mouths, verbs outweigh nouns and actions embody mindsets. Whatever you feel, people can spot. Whatever you harbor, people can smell. And whatever you deny, people can detect. They might not admit it, but deep down, they…
5 Fundamentals to Building a Business You Can be Proud of
1. Hissing is the echo of awesomeness. Accept the fact that approximately ten percent of the people you encounter in life will not like you. Get over it. Screw the ten and stick with the ninety. Pick a side, put a stake in the ground and polarize people purposely. And remember that if everyone loves you, you’re doing something wrong. Besides, you’re nobody until somebody hates you. At least…
Do You Make These 16 Mistakes of Utterly Uncoachable People?
When you’re not coachable, you’re not able to see yourself fully and objectively. When you’re not able to see yourself fully and objectively, you’re not able to maximize learning. When you’re not able to maximize learning, you’re not able to grow. When you’re not able to grow, you’re not able to win. LESSON LEARNED: Those who are coachable are profitable. Now, instead of coaching you on how to become…
Don’t Start a Business Until You Read These Nine Facts
1. Abandonment is the backbone of entrepreneurship. By definition, an entrepreneur is someone who undertakes and manages risk. Someone vulnerable. Someone courageous enough to stick herself out there. And so, what she abandons are outmoded traditions. Popular delusions. Stale thinking. What she abandons is any shell that would otherwise choke the budding dream inside of her. Are YOU willing to plunge forward planless into the vortex of action? 2….
Does Your Brand Pass The Ginsberg Test?
1. What are you doing to become even more visible? Anonymity is the adversary of success. I wear a nametag 24-7. In fact, today is my 9-year anniversary. I literally have zero anonymity whatsoever. (Except on Halloween, when I change my nametag as part of my costume.) Other than that, anyone who sees me at any given moment can say to herself, “Well, I guess his name is Scott…”…
