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Productivityist
OCTOBER 2, 2014
Mike offers up book reviews here at Productivityist , and he writes about other things he''s learned at People Smarter Than Me. In his book Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success , professor Adam Grant examines the most successful individuals in a variety of fields and finds one thing they all have in common, they are givers.
Workplace Insight
DECEMBER 4, 2022
In researching my book Next Generation Leadership , I discovered that 90 percent of Generation Y (or Millennials, who compose 65 percent of the global workforce) typically don’t expect to stay with any employer for more than five years, and 37 percent would say not more than two years. Culture matters.
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Success
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
This calls for two steps—inflation to decline, which could happen, or for salaries to increase, match or exceed it. She also recently wrote a book titled, Show Your Worth: 8 Intentional Strategies for Women to Emerge as Leaders at Work. All we want for 2024 is to make enough money to offset inflation, right?
Success
DECEMBER 21, 2022
Read a self-help book every morning for 30 minutes. If you don’t know how, buy a book on starting a business and read it, or check the internet for tips. Find a mentor. I want to evaluate my cost-of-living expenses and see where I can cut back. Ask questions of mentors and peers. Meditate for 20 minutes.
Success
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
This panic arrives the moment we realize we’ve strayed too far from the paycheck mothership and feel compelled to run back to the salaried womb. In the salaried world we get at least a couple weeks’ paid vacation and feel justified disconnecting from work. Congratulations! It feels awful, but it’s perfectly survivable. Take a vacation.
Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
I have heard of EAs working for successful international corporations and earning a very large salary. You care less, you’re easily annoyed, you start to do a cost-benefit analysis, you feel resentful, and you feel short changed. Take personality tests, read books, talk to people. When you do things for money, it shows.
Success
MAY 16, 2022
He is 25 years older, and he was my mentor early in my career. He insisted he didn’t want to change anything, although he did agree that, moving forward, I would draw a higher salary for my administrative duties and we wouldn’t share the management of our clients as we had in the past; any new clients would be solely under my management.
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