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It’s The Little Things
You’ve already established yourself as a competent professional. Your hard work, experience and learning have paid off. But continuing to focus primarily on your technical competence won’t do much to further your professional stature. At your level, you need to look...
Talk to Yourself
What do you think is the primary inhibitor of your career success? Your firm? Your supervisor? Your intelligence? Your personality? Actually, none of the above. So what is the main reason you’re not progressing faster? It’s you. Well, not you, per se. but your...
The Attitude Changer: Gratitude
As a professional, you can’t afford to have a poor attitude. Too many people rely on you, look to you and expect more from you. If you can’t manage your attitude, you may as well put a glass ceiling over yourself, because you won’t progress as far as you could....
It Takes a Champion
Are you a champion? Not in the Rocky Balboa sort of way (so stop the music so you won’t be humming that tune all day long) but in the leadership sort of way. You know, stepping up and making something happen because it’s important to you and to others. It’s a...
Make It Obvious
I recently interviewed a new partner in one of my client firms to acquaint myself with him. I wanted to know what others saw in him that made it obvious that he should be made partner in the first place. Here’s what I discovered. First, he produces excellent work for...
Take Action
If you want to be more than average, you have to find a way of breaking through the “I don’t want to” state and do it anyway. Think of all the things you don’t do because you’re not feeling it. You delay, put off and procrastinate until you either absolutely have to...
The Stage and the Balcony
As a partner or aspiring partner, you have to learn to do two things: manage and lead. Both are essential, but each is very different. You are likely to be one by nature, but you need to learn the other as well. It could be compared to the difference between acting on...
Get Over Yourself
In order to be a contributing partner or manager, you have to live beyond the borders of your comfort zone. How many times have you said, “But I’m not comfortable doing that” (insert your least favorite responsibility in a whiny-butt whimper). To which I ask, SO WHAT?...
Pat or a Kick?
When you use your strengths wisely, you are really good. Not only that, using your strengths come naturally to you, so it’s not all that difficult. Finally, when you work within your strengths, you enjoy what you do so much more. The problem comes when you use your...
Hoarding Failures
I’m forever looking for the things that professionals do to keep themselves from performing at their optimal level. That’s part of my geek streak. (Don’t snicker—you have your own that’s just as goofy.) Here’s something that drags down some professionals—hoarding. I’m...
