Practical workplace advice

Some practical workplace advice from Michael Wade of Execupundit:

• You are paid to take meaningful actions, not superficial ones. Don’t brag about that memo you sent out or how hard you work. Tell us what you achieved.
• Although your title may be the same, the job that you were hired to do three years ago is probably not the job you have now. When you are just coasting and not thinking several steps ahead of your responsibilities, you are in dinosaur territory and a meteor is coming.
• Your technical skills may impress the other geeks, but if you can’t get along with your co-workers, you’re a litigation breeder. Don’t be surprised if management regards you as an expensive risk.
• If you have a problem with co-workers, have the guts to tell them, preferably in words of one syllable.
• Don’t believe what the organization says it does. Its practices are its real policies. Study what is rewarded and what is punished and you’ll have a better clue as to what’s going on.
• Don’t expect to be perfect. Focus on doing right instead of being right. It will simplify the world enormously.
• If you plan on showing them what you’re capable of only after you get promoted, you need to reverse your thinking.