Saturday, June 16, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
How I Succeed Every Day.
1. Be very focused on my goal and work on it daily
2. Went to college with someone who makes it big and then hired me
3. Born with significant and unique talent
4. Practice every day
5. Network my way to the top by inviting myself from one lunch to another, trading favors as I go
6. Quietly do my job day in and day out until someone notices me and gives me the promotion I deserve
7. Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear
8. Notice things, turn them into insights and then relentlessly turn those insights into projects that resonate
9. Hired a great PR firm and get a lot of publicity
10. Work the informational interview angle
11. Perform outrageous acts and say obnoxious things
12. Inherit
13. Redefine my version of success as: whatever I have right now
14. Flit from project to project until I alight on something that works out very quickly and well
15. Being the best-looking person in the room
16. Flirt
17. Telling stories that people care about and spread
18. Contribute more than is expected
19. Giving credit to others
20. Taking responsibility
21. Aggrandize, preferably self
22. Being a jerk and win through intimidation
23. Being a doormat and refuse to speak up or stand up
24. Never hesitate to share a kind word when it's deserved
25. Sue people
26. Treat every gig as an opportunity to create art
27. Cut corners
28. Focus on defeating the competition
29. When dealing with employees, act like Steve. It worked for him, apparently.
30. Persist, always surviving to ship something tomorrow
31. When in doubt, throw a tantrum
32. Have the ability to work harder and more directly than anyone else when the situation demands it
33. Don't rock the boat
34. Rock the boat
35. Don't rock the boat, baby
36. Resort to black hat tactics to get more than your share
37. Work to pay more taxes
38. Work to evade taxes
39. Find typos.
Inspired by Seth's Blog
Posted by botinhas at 23:50
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