This question came across my desk today
How did you prepare to be in a leadership role? What advice would you give to young adults looking into leadership positions?
Here’s what I said:
[Read more…]How to prepare for leadership
Why it pays to say no
If someone told you that you could make more money by doing less or saying “no” to customers looking to give you their hard-earned money, you’d probably look at them like you just saw Bigfoot breaking bread at the Denny’s booth next to yours.
The thing is it’s a real thing and I’m going to show you how with another restaurant related tale from last weekend.
[Read more…]Are you burning out your team?
This is going to be more rapid fire style to give you some quick hitters on managing teams. I previously talked about how to handle managers that keep signing you up for stuff when you can’t take on anymore without wanting to put your head through a window…
But what about when you’re the manager?
[Read more…]Success, obsession, or inefficiency?
“Working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks in year and people still calling me lucky” – Elon Musk
That was a tweet someone posted on LinkedIn with a comment that maybe that’s why he’s been divorced 3 times.
One response caught my eye about people underestimating the work ethic and sacrifice required to achieve that level of success. And he feels like people shouldn’t call other people out when they disagree with this type of statement.
I call bs on that…
[Read more…]Yoda’s #1 career acceleration secret
Star Wars day it is…
And I still don’t know why the little green jedi transposes all of his sentences.
The good news is it doesn’t really matter because you can still catch the gems he drops.
And the one that matters most today is this:
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