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Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO
50 Indispensable Tips to Help You Stay Afloat, Bounce Back, and Get Ahead at Work
Beverly E. Jones
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Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO
50 Indispensable Tips to Help You Stay Afloat, Bounce Back, and Get Ahead at Work
Beverly E. Jones
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Education plus experience once guaranteed a successful career, but no more! Today, success depends on your ability to adapt. You must be agile, willing to adjust your professional expectations, and able to respond quickly to opportunities and threats. Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO you will learn practical ways to handle vexing workplace challenges. Each chapter uses true stories to illustrate the answers to common questions, including:
- How to leave your old job smoothly and start your new one with confidence and flair.
- How to gracefully accept praise for your work.
- How to recover from stress, setbacks, or the upheaval of a major project.
- How to stay steady in the midst of endless change.It's not enough to know how to manage common work-life challenges; you must also deal with the uncommon ones. Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO gives you proven, easy, go-to techniques for handling even the biggest career surprises, one step at a time.
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Careers1
To Launch Something New, You Need a Good Plan
Your long and varied career is likely to include a series of new jobs and other fresh starts. In 2014, the median time workers had been with their current employer was 4.6 years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. And even if you defy the odds and stay with the same employer for much of your work life, your positions will change; youâll take on new projects, clients, or assignments; and your entire organization could be repeatedly transformed.
What I learned from my worst first day at work
My worst first day was 30 years ago, but it remains a vivid memory. I was a few years out of law school and shifting to a new firm in the nationâs capital. The title on my business card read âpartnerâ instead of âassociate,â in recognition of the clients I was able to bring along with me.
On my first day, I arrived in a new suit, with an empty briefcase, eager to make a good impression in the Washington office of this Virginia firm. But the attorneys who had interviewed me were all out of the office that day, and nobody else seemed pleased to meet me.
I found my way to the most senior Washington partner and introduced myself. He was curt: âAt the interviews they all thought you were so great, but frankly I donât see it. Youâre going to have to prove yourself before anybody here gives you work.â
The first friendly word was from the kind firm administrator who took me to lunch and warned me about a few things. She told me that there had been controversy over my title. And she hinted that in this male-dominated firm, both attorneys and support staff would need some time to get used to the idea of working with a woman lawyer.
The cool welcome was a challenge, but the most uncomfortable part of the day was that I had absolutely nothing to do. Well in advance, I had caught up with work for the clients I was bringing with me. This was back before there was a Web to surf, and I struggled to look busy. Instead of hustling over the weekend to finish my client work, I should have prepared a long list of things to do.
That night, I called my father, holding back tears. To cheer me up, he described his experience with new jobs: âThe first day is always the worst day. The first week is always the worst week. The first month is the worst month. And the first year is the worst year.â
I donât buy into the pessimism embedded in Dadâs view of new jobs. But in that case he was prophetic. Within days the partners who had hired me returned to the office and greeted me with enthusiasm. And in successive weeks, months, and years I found my niche in the firm and eventually felt fully accepted.
My immediate anxieties were eased when I connected with colleagues who were more welcoming than the ones I encountered on that first day. But my time at the firm improved largely because I learned a critical lesson on Day One: nobody else was in charge of making me successful. That was my job. I went to work on my second day with the beginnings of a plan for how I would keep busy, take care of my clients, find new ones, and market my services to other lawyers in the firm. I never again assumed that the leadership would carry the responsibility for my success.
How to get off to a great start
These days itâs hard to imagine that any established business would make so little effort on employee orientation. Often, in a process human resource experts call âonboarding,â organizations develop elaborate plans to ensure that a new hire can quickly get to know key insiders and stakeholders, learn about performance expectations, and become familiar with the internal culture. Leaders may work hard to help recruits get a feel for the environment and develop realistic expectations about their roles.
But even when youâre supported by onboarding pros and a welcoming boss, youâre wise to have your own plan for starting your new job or assignment. Whether you are joining a different company, changing slots in the same outfit, or launching a new project, consider these tips as you lay out your plan:
Even if youâre a person who enjoys change, starting something new can be unnerving. But once you are comfortable with your approach for planning and launching a new gig, your transition will feel less daunting.
Start your plan here
To create a quick and easy plan for launching a new job, answer these five questions:
1) What is my job description?
2) What are my most important objectives for the first year, including the things my boss wants most from me?
3) Who are the people who will be impacted by my work, who can help me to be successful, or who have information that I need, and when can I meet with them for 30 minutes?
4) What are quick and easy wins, including meeting people and learning about the job, that I can deliver during the first three months?
5) What organizational, fitness, or other habits will help me to perform at my best during the first three months?
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Think Like an Entrepreneur, Wherever You Are
When I was in my 20s, it never crossed my mind that I would run my own business like Iâm doing today. Back then, I wanted job security. And I felt secure at big organizations with clear and enduring missions like the Securities and Exchange Commission, where I worked right after law school.
It was flattering to be recruited from the SEC to my first law firm. But when I first arrived, I missed the roadmap to promotion that had been so clear in a government job. Then when I watched more closely, I began to understand the ârules.â At the law firm, the partners with power were the ones with their own loyal clients. So, I began recruiting clients, not at first realizing that I was in effect creating my own little enterprise.
When I saw the chance to quickly become a partner, I took my clients to another firm, the one I wrote about in Chapter 1. On that first day, I still was thinking of the law firm just as I would any other employer. But I was immediately forced to see how my arrival appeared from the firmâs perspective. The partners didnât view me as an employee so much as a very small business to integrate into their operations. As a partner I was obligated to market my services, produce billable work, and bring in more money than the firm had to spend in order to pay me and cover my overhead.
I gradually realized that every organization of any significant size is a collection of smaller operations, all of which have to produce products or services that somehow support a shared mission. Years later, when I joined my largest corporate client as the public affairs executive, I understood that I had to think like an entrepreneur in order to find success and real security.
At Consolidated Natural Gas Company, a Fortune 500 utility conglomerate, I was brought in as a change agent. I had to reorganize or invent costly outreach services, like lobbying on nat...