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The smartest person doesn’t get the promotion, it’s this person that sells themselves the best. Hence leadership is seldom the smartest, but always the easiest to understand
@Partner 1 where do the top 1% go?
Don’t blindly trust anyone. Verify everything. Stay skeptical unless proven otherwise.
Don’t share to much information with your peers, professionally or personally! It’s a jungle over there. Keep your enemies close and your friends closer, they will be the ones who will stab you in the back!
Start finishing the work you start. You do a good job of making progress on difficult tasks but you rely on leadership direction to finish it rather than driving it to completion. My senior manager and my wife have both given me this advice.
The best way to finish stuff that you start is to con your colleagues into thinking it's the best thing ever and having them help you push it to completion
Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement.
Boss! I like this one
Something out there is your kryptonite (Could be booze, procrastination, vanity, dumb spending...The thing that takes you off track more than anything else and makes you feel bad afterwards). Find out what it is and control it. Eliminate it if you can. Then you start getting big things done.
And with that I'm signing out
If your leadership promises you or dangles something in front of you and then doesn’t deliver (bonuses, promotions, etc), then it’s time to go. Life is too short to work for people who waste your time
RETWEEEEEET
Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm.
Wow. This is memorable advice!
Chief
When your girlfriend says “go ahead” that’s a dare, not permission
Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone for any reason ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been... ever, for any reason whatsoever...
🤔
Chief
You’re not special at all.
Ty sir may have another
1 - no one will ever tell you to work less in consulting, set your own boundaries
2 - ask for the path to promotion early, if you don’t your peers are doing it
3 - find out the way the firm really works and get the right people on your side. But don’t be annoying... I have it seen it work against people too. Don’t waste a partner’s time with a pure self promotion call.
One more that I love - “no one ever got fired for asking for help, but they have been fired for not asking.”
Rising Star
Calorie deficit is how you lose weight, no matter the diet type. Weigh yourself daily, don’t let the weight gain creep up on you. Both hurt my feelings 🤣
I feel triggered
If you want to land very competitive roles, you have to have the “perfect” story about why you are a fit. Also if you have to apply and search for those jobs on a job board, odds are you’ve already been passed on. If you don’t have a plan for what experiences you will extract from a job, you’re wasting time (which is fine if you’re content). Get known for a niche so recruiters seek you out. Start taking your career seriously as early on as possible, because the knowledge you can get can snowball very quickly.
Max our your 401k starting your first paycheck. No exceptions.
It's not too late. get started before you hit 35 and then double down
Treat everybody with kindness and respect, even if they don’t deserve it.
You work with people that without a steady paycheck would be homeless in less than 3 months. They’ll do what it takes to survive including burning you, the firm, and anything threatening their tenuous financial position.
I work for that person right now. Spot on
Be diplomatic and never burn bridges no matter how much you hate the other person.
If the other person is truly un-diplomatic, make sure people see you being the polite and reasonable one. And get stuff in writing. You will have the high ground in the eyes of everyone else.
No one is coming to rescue you. Not everyone is meant to survive, and not everyone is going to find someone to love her.
Rising Star
You’re ultimately just a number on a spreadsheet somewhere. The second your return doesn’t outweigh your cost, they’ll find someone else.
Mentorship should be a symbiotic relationship - think hard about what you can offer in return that will benefit the mentor.
Having a single mentor is a mistake - get a circle of leaders you value. Take what you can apply and leave the rest behind. Successful people don't follow the footsteps of others, they avoid the landmines of those in front of them and carve a new path.