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THERE ARE LOTS of factors that add up to create a successful career, not matter what your trade or industry.
Perseverance, hard work and sheer luck are often cited as some of the magic ingredients to climbing the ladder and getting ahead in the workplace. That said, soft skills are often an underrated element in the mix that the most influential and successful people bring to the table.
Let’s take a look at what some of the world’s biggest heavy hitters in business have to say about their career wins.
Nooyi has been the CEO of soft drink juggernaut Pepsi for over a decade, with double that at the massive company in total. She advises those in business to combine curiosity and humility, telling Fortune:
Whether you’re an entry-level employee fresh out of college or a CEO, you don’t know it all. Admitting this is not a sign of weakness. The strongest leaders are those who are lifelong students.
My advice to young workers and even mid-career managers is this: be as unselfish as possible. That means not only helping others with their jobs, but actively training people to do your job well. This helps your co-workers, helps your company, and helps you.
Chen penned these words of wisdom in a LinkedIn post, which you can read in its entirety here.
Setta’s advice is simple and to the point:
Never eat lunch at your desk.
She expanded on this to Business Insider, telling them that there’s one smart reason to get out from behind your computer monitor come lunchtime: networking opportunities.
Sheryl Sandberg replied to the question “What would you tell your younger self when starting out?” on the expert information-sharing platform Quora – and the full reply is worth reading. Here’s just one of her insightful nuggets of advice:
There is no straight path to where you are going. If you try to draw that line you will not just get it wrong, but you will miss big opportunities.
Anyone who has lost hours of their life clicking around the internet with StumbleUpon will want to listen up to Bartels. He’s an advocate of mapping out what you want to achieve, telling Business Insider:
We talk about budgets; we talk about planning your finances… But what a lot of people don’t do is plan out the next 12 to 18 or 24 months of their careers.
Whatever career you’re in, assume it’s going to be a massive failure. That way, you’re not making decisions based on success, money and career. You’re only making it based on doing what you love.
More off-kilter/liberating (depending on your point of view) advice from Chesky can be found in this 2014 New York Times Q&A.
Ersek told Fortune:
Top leaders should put themselves in other people’s shoes and listen. If you listen to people, whether they are from the US or Spain, Bangladesh or Brazil, Mexico or Russia, whether they are rich or poor, white or black, male or female, old or young, they make you grow, they keep you innovative, they keep you active.
Whelan, entrepreneur and CEO of the global exercise phenomenon SoulCycle, imparted these jewels of wisdom to Adam Bryant of the New York Times on the value of truly listening:
You have to ask a lot of questions and you have to really listen to the answers. Don’t be thinking about the next question, and don’t be thinking about what you’re having for lunch. Really listen, because in every answer there are at least three more questions you want to be asking.
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Meanwhile, the fatcat bond holders were compensated fully. Didn’t happen though when ordinary working men and women were persuaded by Mary O Rourke to beg borrow or steal to buy shares in Eircom…..
You may be sure that the majority of the managers and higher level workers lost out on nothing . As usual Mulvey, an ex trade union leader, is a disgrace !
Bloody whingers they were happy when the bank was doing well.
They were happy when the bonuses were coming in.
Lucky to be getting anything should only be statutory and be glad of it.
Frankly, they suffer because they are playing golf with the wrong crowd
My heart bleeds
No bank in receipt of state funds should have been allowed to offer anything beyond statutory redundancy. Maybe not a reflection on the person but the company was dead. I await with interest to see where John Moran pops up now he has allowed recapitalisation of banks.
Staff who resigned not entitled to redundancy… Shock Horror
my dad got his mortgage from anglo when it was a fella in an office.he got €4000 to build the house in dublin, and in the height the house was worth €650,000. in walkinstown. mental stuff
But he built it in the rare old times yeah ?
Anglo Irish Bank never offered residential mortgages
rare old times is right mate. even in walkintown… the house is big and had an extension with utility room and jax. it really makes ye remember how crazy it all was
Maybe I’m Missing something, but if you leave a job for a better offer, even if the company you work for is in trouble, you are not entitled to any redundancy. How is this even an issue for reporting in the media????
I have no sympathy for Anglo staff they did a crap job building a busted bank, paid themselves well and the country was left holding a bill for their collective stupidity. Just suck it up the same as contractors who never got paid or small business that went bust. I shared a lift with a stupid girl who had worked for Anglo and she could see no connection with the loss of services in society and her former company’s bad business decisions
Comments closed for Seanie et pals court case-but open for actual current staff working 9-5 same as u-shame on you Journal
Good. Finally a little bit of justice. It appears the country is slowly releasing its head from its anoos
Maybe I’m Missing something, but if you leave a job for a better offer, especially if the company you work for is in trouble, you’re not entitled to reduntancy!!!!!!
“The reason for this, according to the IBOA, is because creditors of the IBRC could legally pursue payments made to those who left early.”
Excellent. They can go after Fitzpatrick then, biggest payout in one person right there.
The lapdogs for the leprechauns who ruined the country,let them starve,call it the Anglo famine.
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