Great Work, Great Career
How to Create Your Ultimate Job and Make an Extraordinary Contribution
Editorial Review
To begin with, anyone can have a great career. It doesn’t matter what your line of work is. It’s all in how you define “Great Career”. Do you define it as something that brings you a lot of money and power? Of course a livable wage is important, but this is not what we mean by “Great Career”. Take a minute and think about the most effective influential people you have ever known professionally. It could be a teacher, a co-worker, a friend or a leader. What contribution did that person make to your life, to your organization and to the world? And did it necessarily have much to do with wealth and power? I guess not!
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Wisdom to Share
Envisioning, defining and designing your contribution statement are the first steps on the path to a great career.
It is better to write contribution statements for every position or project you take on, as once you have written it, you will naturally want to make it happen.
We are so busy just trying to get through each day, working feverishly at the current job, that we never take the time to map out what we would really like to do.
Passion and talent do not necessarily connect, but often you will find your talent through your passion.
If the work you do bothers your sense of integrity or honesty, no other success will make up for your disappointment in yourself.
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The main challenge is to change your paradigm of yourself from dependant and useless to independent and full of capacity.
People are tempted to see each other as means to an end; they seek out others only when they need something from them.
If you believe that what you do truly makes the lives of others better, if you satisfy a real business need, then you are serving others in the network.
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