Happy Monday!
This week’s book is
I have always pushed the importance of knowing WHAT to read, but sometimes knowing WHEN to read is equally important. I read this book in the exact moment where its advice was key in the success of a new role and could not have thanked that enough.
For those of you looking for career guidance, this book is for you.
Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 49 seconds.
Here’s my top 10 takeaways:
1. Key Question
The minute you step into a new role is the minute your managers, coworkers, and clients will ask themselves:
“How does who you are and what you have done make you competent, committed, and compatible for your new role?”
2. Competence
Can you do the job well?
Prove that you are competent, and people will want to offer you more important responsibilities.
Show that you can get the job done fully, accurately, and promptly without needing to be micromanaged.
3. Commitment
Are you excited to be here?
Prove that you are committed, and people will want to invest in you.
Show that you are fully present and eager to help the team achieve its goal.
4. Compatibility
Do you get along with us?
Prove that you are compatible, and people will want to work with you.
Make others comfortable and eager to be around you.
5. Perception
Your actual competence matters, but your perceived competence can be just as important.
Just because you are committed does not mean people perceive you to be committed.
6. Mimesis
People like people who are similar to themselves, so they tend to hire, hang around, and promote those who look like, talk like, and have the same backgrounds and interests as they do.
7. Action
You cant wait around for others to decide your future. You need to create opportunities for yourself.
If you do not ask for it, you wont get it.
8. Gratitude
The odds of someone getting annoyed by you thanking them are approximately 0 percent.
The odds of someone getting annoyed if you disappear after they spent time helping you are 100 percent.
9. Unbreakable Law
The spoken objective of a feedback meeting may be to help you improve, but the unspoken objective is to help your manager feel validated.
Never outshine your manager.
10. Impressions
People like to say that first impressions matter. Last impressions can matter just as much.
It’s such a low bar, too. When you announce that you’re about to leave, most people assume you will be checked out.
Anything you do that defies expectations and shows that you are still invested in the team can go a long way.
“Leave it to other people to tell you no. Do not limit yourself before you have even given yourself a chance.”
— Gorick Ng
Until next week,
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