Networking quid pro quo, and why everything you know about it is wrong
Networking is the art of building a network of friends and colleagues to enrich your life and theirs. If all you do is take, then you’ll fail.
Networking is the art of building a network of friends and colleagues to enrich your life and theirs. If all you do is take, then you’ll fail.
When I was working in Silicon Valley, I lived the quintessential startup life. All our meals were catered, we played ping pong on our breaks, and we worked fast and hard to build a company. We were changing the world. Fast forward to today, and I just finished working at the Pentagon — and let me tell…
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It’s easy to fall into the habit of feeling like everything we do is a little bit of a failure. Sometimes we want to make a little more money, or run a little bit faster, or sing a little bit better. Every time we try, we’re setting ourselves up for failure, and that’s scary and…
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Our modern political climate is a hell of a thing. It seems that no matter what you say or do, someone accuses you of being on the “other side” of the political spectrum. I recently wrote an op-ed in The Hill about how we need more Millenials in public service, and how too often I…
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I’m in the middle of reading “Measure What Matters”, the book that widely popularized the concept of Objectives and Key Results (OKR), by John Doerr. In the book, John explains how a deliberate focus on what you’re doing (objectives) and how you’re doing it (key results) is the key to success. In the middle of reading, I remembered a wonderful gift my sister gave my wife for Christmas the year before she started grad school – it was a “detailed” book of OKR advice on how to do well in school, written by 18 first graders.
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