Everyone slips up from time to time and engages in some office gossip. However, a Pro knows that there are things you simply don’t talk about or you risk people never trusting you again. That is very bad for your career, as your ability to get useful information will be severely compromised. What shouldn’t you…
Author: Duncan Zaves
Rule 8: A Pro doesn’t show anger
You are going to get angry. In fact, the longer you stay at a company, the angrier you will get (a.k.a. the “Camelback Effect”, see below). Unfortunately, anger is the enemy of almost every other rule. So you must either actively eliminate your emotions OR actively fight against expressing your emotions in any discernible way. Unless you…
Rule 7: A Pro produces quality, not quantity
Wise Pros always, and I mean always, live by this rule: If it is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. This doesn’t mean work harder on everything. Quite the opposite – You need to limit what you do so you can do a few things impressively. You could probably ignore the rest of the…
Rule 6: A Pro does unto others as they do unto the Pro – Plus 15%
In your interactions with family, friends and community, The Golden Rule is a profoundly simply guideline for being a good person. It lives in the teachings of most religions and ethical systems and for the most part is sound advice. Except at work. Like it or not, work isn’t a family or community. How do…
Rule 5: A Pro has no one to blame but themselves
I know what you are thinking. This is fucking absurd. Life shits on people sometimes. They suffer setbacks well beyond their control. They wind up in situations no one could have predicted. The universe is random. Yep. I get it. I lived it more than once. HOWEVER – you must wake up everyday as if…