absolutely no relevancy.
Choose projects and jobs that are a good match with your overall career plan
Pick your jobs and projects to develop and use skills that match your beliefs. See each move, every team project as an opportunity to further develop your career life plan.
Understand that the right boss is often more important than the right job.
See the person to whom you report as the greatest factor in your career success. What can he or she teach you? How can he or she support your growth? How can he or she tutor your skill progression?
Be alert to coworker synergy when deciding whether to take on a project or job.
What are they doing, how creative, innovative and open are they? How successful are they? How capable are they of continuing success? Employment studies consistently show that between 85 and 92% of the reasons people don’t succeed in a job is because of “fit.”
Rethink employment: Don’t take a job or project, make it.
Solve the right problems and create opportunities. Reshape your job with the direction of the company, the customer, your goals.
Sharpen your negotiating skills.
Develop core competencies in knowing clearly what you want before asking. Figure out who the other person is, his or her goals, interests, pressures and authority. Clarify your strengths and benefits and present them loudly. Handle confrontation in easy-to-understand win-win situations. Learn how to manage people.
Make continual learning your number one priority.
Remember: no risks, no rewards.
Vow never to grow bored.
Learn to juggle. Never get stale. Make your life different every day whether it is a different person you discuss an issue with, someone different to have lunch with, a new analysis tool, a different point of view to argue, a different route to work, a magazine you hadn’t read, a different Web site to visit, welcome change.
Recognize that it’s never, ever, too late to change and grow.
Change brings success, in both our personal and our professional life. As the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “We aren’t what we ought to be, we aren’t what we should be, we aren’t even what we could be, but thank God we’re not what we were.”