- Know what is expected of you – Find out what is required to be great at what you do, know what your benchmark of excellence is according to your employer or clients, then study it and adopt it as your own. Own it!
- Have an uncompromising target – Don’t redefine excellence according to you or others if it gets too hard.
- Don’t compare yourself with others. Keep your eye on the target.
- Have an accurate target – If you don’t know exactly what is expected of you, find out.
- Have a worthy target – Find out what the best in the industry do, and then do what they do. Be the best at what you do.
- Personal Growth – Grow yourself daily. People are willing to pay you more now, if they know you will be worth more down the road.
- Be teachable and ask lots of questions. Learn from the experts and allow others to add value to you.
- Accept and ask for constructive criticism. Don’t be easily offended and proud. Pride subtracts from your value.
- Make yourself great, don’t just reach the goal. Become a person who naturally does the goal.
- Learn how things work – Seek first to understand then to be understood. Listen more and speak less.
- Take responsibility – Make no excuses and blame no one else for your difficulties.
- Fail often – Own your failure, learn from them, and grow faster.
- Alignment – If you wish to be more valuable, make sure that your values line up with the values of the organization. If they don’t, find somewhere that does.
- Represent the organization with integrity and class at all times.
- Protect the brand and reputation of the organization.
- Take pride in your organization and be part of something bigger than you.
- Work toward interdependance and synergy. Not independance and individualism.
- Don’t out think your superiors, trust the system and commit to the them. If it’s a bad system, you are in the wrong place.
- Results – Finish the job, reach the finish line and excel past expectations.
- If you proclaim what you are capable of, then do it. Show that you are what you say.
- Commit yourself to the desired outcomes. No one completes a task without a commitment.
- Don’t try harder – Reject the “Try Harder” approach. It implies that effort is more important than outcomes.
- Less is not more – Don’t show you can do what you are getting paid to do. Show you can do more than what you are getting paid to do. By doing so you may get even more to do and paid even more to do it.
- Leadership – Leading your self is most important. But if you have the ability to influence others, you will multiply your value by infusing your abilities into others.
- Leadership raises the value of everyone around them, thus raising your value.
- Leadership is influence and has exponential growth. It multiplies your efforts rather than just adding to them.
- Leadership is much harder to find, thus putting you in higher demand to others.
- Leadership brings solutions to a world of problems, and order to a world of chaos.
- Leadership raises the lid of your potential, and gives you financial leverage.
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