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“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” Herbert Bayard Swope, first recipient of the Pulitzer… Continue reading
A professional environment is a pig sty that slows development, blocks innovation, and belittles authenticity. If professionalism is about competence, count me in. But there’s a difference between being professional and professional environments.… Continue reading
Growth is becoming your aspirational self, not languishing with the façade of authenticity. Don’t turn from challenge or opportunity with self-affirming nonsense like, “It’s just not me,” or, “That’s not who I am.”… Continue reading
You can hate 20% of your job and still love your job.
Over the years I asked managers how much of their job they could hate and still love their job. The number hovers around 20%.
Unrealistic expectations ruin satisfaction.
The formula to love your job is 20-60-20.
“Why will no man confess his faults? Because he is still in their grasp…” Seneca
Smart leaders love correction.
When you hate correction, you love grappling with the same faults over and over and over.
