You are hired to get a job done. When you are put in a role, you are put in a role because presumably you are supposed to perform in that role.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business
11 quotes across 1 episode
The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career
These are skills that can be mastered. This is not about personality. These are skills, everything we've talked about, networking, showing up, all these things. These are skills that can be learned.
No one is going to promote Lenny if they don't know who the hell you are. You cannot choose what is not in your head.
If you think this is uncomfortable, or if you think you're not skilled at this, get coaching. It's hard to do anything on your own.
If you think power is dirty, the first thing that's going to happen is I'm not going to do what I need to do to be successful in my career.
You can have power or you can have autonomy, but you cannot have both.
Few people are going to do anything if you don't ask. What is the worst that could happen? If you ask and they say no, you are no worse off than had you not asked in the first place.
If somebody is on your critical path, the only judgment you should make is they're on my critical path. If I want to get something done, I need their collaboration and cooperation, and the fact that I may not like them is in fact irrelevant.
If leadership management is getting things done through other people, it seems like common sense that the more other people you know, the more you'll be able to get done.
If you always stay in your comfort zone, you'll never do anything different or better than what you're currently doing.
No one is going to promote Lenny if they don't know who the hell you are. You cannot choose what is not in your head.