Greatest Advice I’ve Heard in a Long Time
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Greatest Advice I’ve Heard in a Long Time
"Just learn how to get stuff done. I’ve seen at every level people who are very good at describing problems, people who are very sophisticated in explaining why something went wrong or why something can’t get fixed.
But what I’m always looking for is, no matter how small the problem or how big it is, somebody who says, 'Let me take care of that.’
If you project an attitude of whatever it is that's needed, I can handle it and I can do it., whoever is running that organisation will notice, I promise.
And which is why I think with young people, you don't always need to be so impatient asking for the plum assignment. A lot of times the best way to get attention is whatever is assigned to you, you are just nailing. You’re killing it. Because people will notice, 'Oh, that's somebody who can get something done.'"
- Obama
Top comments (9)
How can one balance the need to take initiative with the risk of taking on too much and getting overwhelmed?
short answer? there is no blue pill here… one simply needs to note their personal metrics - velocity comes to mind but usually in the context of teams (for good reason). once a trend can be established, and the goldilocks workload identified, one’s taking of initiative becomes a mitigated risk.
i’ve personally found that taking every initiative is not a very effective way of showing initiative… becoming the expert on a specific type of thing or project area has been much more beneficial to my career than burning myself into the ground trying to do everything well.
Metrics are a hot topic. You depend on alot of people getting things right to measure a task. A lot of the time it’s going in blind and hoping for the best but measuring for the worst.
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Damn. That makes more sense than 90% of the jargon that so-called motivational speakers on youtube spew.
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he is needed, and needed badly—the man who can
Carry a message to Garcia.
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That's an advice on how to get noticed by the management - and as such it's probably good. It's worth to not mistake it for an advice about how to make a good software or something like that.
It’s also a way to gain job security in this market. Management isn’t interested in ‘good software’. They just want things to get done and someone who can do it. I’ve been doing this for 24 years now and the Swiss army humans always last and get promoted. This is coming from a life long ui specialist.
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Building a house goes brick by brick. Creating a project goes line by line. Both have something important in common: A good plan
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