Category Work Advice

Get noticed   OK, so you got hired.  How do you maximize your chances of success besides from being brilliant and hard working?  Get noticed.  People need to know who you are in order to comment about you, care what…

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Managing People They won’t know what you want if you don’t tell them.   You can’t assume that the people you manage know what to do in all situations.  Tell them what you need and when you need it and why…

Solving Problems Much of this section will concern the kind of work that I did in my job as an engineer, so it might not be applicable to other types of work, at least not directly.    Think through problems. …

Work Suggestions   Do what you say you will do when you said you would.  This should be the first commandment of work, maybe of life.  How many times have you been disappointed by someone not doing what they said…