My notes on “The Unwritten Laws of Business” by J. King & James G. Skakoon. 2007
Good advice for employees who want to get the most out of their current role.
- However menial and trivial your early assignments may appear, give them your best efforts
- Demonstrate the ability to get things done
- Show Initiative. Start & get things moving briskly
- Resourcefulness
- Ingenuity
- Persistence
- Tenacity
- In carrying out projects, do not wait passively for anyone to make good on their delivery promises; go after them & keep relentlessly after them
- Confirm your instructions & the other person’s commitments in writing
- Whatever your supervisor wants done takes top priority
- Whenever you are asked by your manager to do something, you are expected to do exactly that
- Either do it as requested, or
- Come back and talk it over
- But you’re not a robot. There is often room for initiative and deviation