Tag: Management

‘Be tenacious about looking outside your comfort zone for an open and finding someone to champion your candidacy. That’s especially important when obstacles loom, as they invariably will. You can’t shrink from those barriers, advises Beth Mooney

‘Try to avoid letting preconceived notions influence your judgment of employees.’- Mindy Grossman

‘Confront self-doubts and your capabilities. … If you hear that voice, you need to overpower it with another voice that says, ‘I do belong,” she recommends. ‘Catch yourself.”- Clara Shih

‘Be willing to start from the bottom. … ‘If you are good, you will shine.”- Abbe Raven

‘For your professional debut, seek a workplace where you have a fighting chance to succeed.’- Janet Dolan

‘Your experiences with a bad boss can teach you how to become a better manager.’

‘Take stock of your managerial strengths rather than focus on your weaknesses. That especially can make a difference when you’re competing for promotion.’- Melissa Dyrdahl

‘Make sure your supervisor knows what you really want career-wise and take the same approach with your key lieutenants.’- Teresa Taylor

‘View your management career as a zigzag. Stepping backward into a less glamorous role can enable you to step forward into a better one.’- Andrea Jung

Source

Joann S. Lublin (2016). Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World