Are you indispensable? If you’re looking to get noticed or get promoted you need to become even more essential than you already are. But how?
In this video review of Seth Godin’s ‘LinchPin’ I share the biggest idea from this important book.
Are you indispensable? If you’re looking to get noticed or get promoted you need to become even more essential than you already are. But how?
Ever since I started coaching managers, I’ve noticed a few questions that always come up at some point. These are:
• How can I get noticed?
• How can I get promoted?
• How can I get headhunted?
The next step on the career ladder is something that faces all ambitious managers at some point, especially if you’re modest and unassuming. The ones who are hypey or salesy can look after themselves, right?.
Recently, though, I have had several more people than usual ask how they can move on. Perhaps because the economy has been tough in many places worldwide.
So rather than try to answer their questions individually, I thought I would document the process here. You might want to try something similar.
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Some years ago I realized that I was wrong. I was developing a leadership programme for London Business School and it occurred to me that to become better leaders we should NOT copy the same old handful of inspirational leaders – such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mother Theresa. Nor even Jack Welch, Sheryl Sandberg or whichever CEO is the current darling of Harvard Business Review.
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Which is better? Quick decisions or slow decisions?
Watch the video. I think you’ll be surprised.
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In The Secrets of CEOs, the authors Steve Tappin and Andrew Cave claim that 150 global leaders will lift the lid on business, life and leadership.
Well, they don’t really do that… instead they do something better.
Watch the video right now for the verdict.
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Originally posted: 24 April 2011
I’m devastated by the news that my former student and great friend Rami Makhzoumi, the CEO of Future Pipe, passed away yesterday at the age of just 33. He was an inspiration to everyone he encountered.
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Originally published January 2011
I disappeared last year. Some of you were wondering what happened. Here’s the story.
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My current project is on promotion strategies for executives in medium and large corporations. 