Summary: To achieve career success, focus on taking action, adding value, and playing to your strengths. Building relationships and being honest with yourself are also key. Ultimately, managing your career is your responsibility, and persistence will help you progress.
Most things need multiple runs at them, ideas might need reframing, or sometimes it’s just not the right time. In which case keep pushing the idea at intervals or when triggers, like an incident or close-call, raise the temperature. (View Highlight)
Build relationships with people ahead of when you need them. Find appropriate ways to remind people what value you have provided to them. (View Highlight)
If your decision making progress, either in specific strategies, projects or even your career relies on only moving forward when you are certain then you are sure to fail. (View Highlight)
Bottom line: managing your career is your job and your job alone. (View Highlight)