All right, got another one. A shocking statistic: Over 70 percent of people end up in jobs they don’t like. Don’t be one of those people. Over 70 percent. So all the time and effort that you put into getting here, the studying and the athletics and the AP classes and all the work you put in there, and you’re going to end up in a job you don’t like? Are you crazy? Don’t do it. Don’t do it. So start thinking right now about what that job might look like that you’re going to like. Get information. Network. Talk to people. Find out what it really feels like to work that job. Don’t be one of these people.
All right, we’ll talk about leadership a little bit. I think I’ve covered this one. Encourage debate and disagreement. Benevolent dictatorship. What do I mean by this? It’s important – this is an important point to understand. I’m going to use this next tip to explain it. There is more than one way to do things. I say this a lot. I think I made it up but if I didn’t I apologize. But there’s more than one way to do things but you have to do things one way.
Let me ask you a question. Steve Jobs dies. Is Apple ever going to be the same? No. There’s more than one way to do things but you have to do things one way. Steve Jobs had a fairly torturous way of doing things but highly effective. That company will never be the same because it doesn’t know exactly what that way it does things anymore is. So it improves on ideas that he had and that goes for big companies like Apple and small companies like mine. There’s a lot of different ways to go about getting things done but you gotta’ pick one and go with it. You need leadership that helps you to get there. Hopefully, you can become one of those leaders.
Back to leadership: Make hard decisions. That’s maybe obvious as a leader, maybe less obvious as a younger person but make hard decisions. What’s a hard decision? Well, you might take a job that pays less money because you’re going to learn more maybe. In my case, you might stay at a job that you really don’t like day-to-day because you know you’re learning all the time from it and you’re making great contacts. And that’s hard because every day you’re there, you’re thinking, “I’d rather be someplace else.” So think about in your career and in your life, make hard decisions. Be willing to.
Focus on incentives. So this is an interesting one, right? Think about Wells Fargo. Do you guys follow the whole Wells Fargo thing I hope? So Wells Fargo had some great incentives in their branches but they didn’t really manage it very well and they ended up having crazy things happen, right? People opening up accounts that didn’t exist and customers never wanted. So incentives are super powerful things. They’re super powerful things as an employer but also as an employee.
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