Key takeaways:
- Know your strengths. Know your weaknesses. Track your activities to find out what these are. Following this discovery, spend more time on what you are good at – the 80-20 rule. Analysis like this will show what you need to learn to get to where you want to go.
- Don’t take pride in the things you don’t know, that is a defeatist mentality.
- Listeners vs Readers: identify which you are and know your strengths and weaknesses.
- How do you learn? Sketching, listening, graphs and tables, reading, etc. Identify what works and stick to it.
- Do you work as a decision maker or as an adviser?
- What are your values? The “Why?” question. Answer this first before you embark on a new task.
- Know where you belong and do yourself a favor and step out of a position you are not meant to be at.
- Have the courage and discipline to say, “NO, I cannot do the task this way, but I can do it this other way”. Make sure your management understands how you work. If they don’t, then communicate this to them directly.
- Making predictions for the next 1.5yrs is reasonable; beyond that is not. It is important to measure and track your progress towards your goals.
- Working with others: understand their personality type and how they work, then adjust yourself accordingly. Be clear with your communications, spell things out.
These are the major points I took away from this book.
You can find this book wherever you get your books from.