If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.
Interpretation
LinkedIn is a valuable platform for professional growth and networking.
This quote emphasizes the importance of utilizing LinkedIn as a tool for enhancing your career. By engaging actively with the platform, individuals can access a wealth of information, insights, and connections that can help them excel in their jobs and achieve greater effectiveness in their professional endeavors.
In practice
In a workshop on career development, I might say, 'If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn.'
Leaders, whether in the public or the private sphere, must understand the responsibilities that come with their role. They are the most visible standard-bearers of their organizations. Holding them accountable to this responsibility protects the promise of our organizations and our communities.
The same instincts that make us good students can make us lousy entrepreneurs.
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.
I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've released too late.
Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
Salary negotiations are particularly important because people are testing you as both a co-worker and an ambassador. They really don't want you to be a pushover, and they don't want you to be a jerk.
It likes it when you don’t depend on it. It will reward you every time you don’t act needy. It will chase you if you act like other things (passion, friendship, family, longevity) are more important to you. If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.
If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.
If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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