Put up with boring, soul-destroying work only when you’re young, exploring your options, and establishing your credibility. Once you become established, become discriminating about your work, colleagues, clients, and associates.
Put up with boring, soul-destroying work only when you’re young, exploring your options, and establishing your credibility. Once you become established, become discriminating about your work, colleagues, clients, and associates.
I agree with my mother, who said that money provides a comfortable way of being unhappy. The nature of money and my view of money have changed over the last half-century. Money has become a dysfunctional belief system. The financial system is illogically back-to-front, inside out, and upside down.
Qualities of a good leader: Sharing a vision and passion for success, being a good listener, and accepting and acting on the considered advice of others. But most important, finding and developing a team of people who can carry out my role better than I could myself.
Understand other people’s values, concerns, and points of view. In another life, I would listen more diligently and empathetically.
Do not be deterred from seeking to do the impossible, like applying for acceptance to Harvard with only an “ordinary degree.”