Get A Raise: 10 Steps For Getting Your Boss To Think You’re The Best
ople always want to know how to ask for a raise. 99% of whether you get a raise has nothing to do with wording. The vast majority of the time the result of that negotiation is determined long before you enter the room. And it's usually up to your immediate boss. When I asked Stanford MBA school professor Jeffrey Pfeffer for the single most important career tip, what did he say? Please your boss. Keep your boss happy. If your…
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The Leadership Secret Steve Jobs And Mark Zuckerberg Have In Common
cerpts from my interview with Robert Sutton, professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and author of Scaling Up Excellence: Getting To More Without Settling For Less. What You Can Learn About Leadership From Jobs And Zuckerberg Robert Sutton: We all have imperfections and surrounding yourself with people who can do things you can't is really essential. If you just look at Zuckerberg, the guy is very, very focused on the product and is probably not particularly great interpersonally. So…
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Slacker’s Guide To Productivity: 6 Ways To Goof Off And Get More Done
ve posted about how people at the top of their field are relentlessly productive. But you can't sprint for miles. There's plenty of research showing that being a touch lazy might be beneficial at times. Here are six research-backed ways to get more done in less time by taking it easy. 1) Work Less Working too hard for too long makes you less productive. Yes, pulling 60-hour weeks is impressive. But pull them for more than 2 months and you…
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Productivity Ninja: 5 Powerful Tips For Getting More Stuff Done
Know When You're At Your Best And plan accordingly. To be a productivity ninja focus less on time management, and more on managing your energy. Charlie Munger, Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, used a system like this to make sure he was always growing. He identified the hours when he was at his best -- and then routinely stole one of those peak hours for learning. Via The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make them Happen: Charlie…
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What can you learn from the toughest leadership job on Earth?
agine you're heading up a team stationed in Antarctica. And your relationship with some of the crew members goes sour. There's nobody else to enforce your authority. In fact, there's no one for hundreds -- if not thousands -- of miles. And you can't fire anyone. Everyone has a critical role. How do you even punish them? How can you take things away in a situation where everyone only has the minimum amenities to begin with? And there's no one to get…
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Team Building: How to use Moneyball at the office to build great teams
ere are a lot of myths about team building. For instance: People are not a company's most valuable asset. The right people are. This is one of the key things Jim Collins explains in Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't, his exhaustive study of great teams and leaders. He holds Nucor up as a prime example of perfect team building. These guys were so devoted they chased lazy employees out of the factory. Via Good…
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How To Overcome Fear Of Public Speaking And Give A Great Presentation
at Dilbert comic is pretty accurate. Gallup says 40% of people fear public speaking -- and some people fear it more than death. Jerry Seinfeld interpreted this as meaning that at a funeral, more people would rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy. Via Nerve: Poise Under Pressure, Serenity Under Stress, and the Brave New Science of Fear and Cool: A wide variety of studies have crowned fear of public speaking - or glossophobia, for sticklers - as…
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Which Job Skills Will Be Most Important In The Coming Years?
2011, Foreign Policy Magazine named Tyler Cowen #72 in their list of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers." He is a professor of economics at George Mason University and, along with Alex Tabarrok, he blogs at Marginal Revolution, one of the most popular economics sites on the internet. Tyler is a New York Times bestselling author, having written 13 books including Discover Your Inner Economist and The Great Stagnation. His latest book is Average Is Over which gives a fascinating look into where the…
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