Show Notes
This podcast recommends keeping an ongoing Delta File, a private journal where you record organizational practices you find objectionable so that when you eventually reach a position of greater influence, you'll remember how those decisions felt from below and avoid making the same mistakes yourself.
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We've talked about the importance of interpersonal skills before, with casts on topics like handshakes, meal etiquette, and how to be effective in everyday conversations. As a professional, career management skills are what determines whether or not you'll be successful. The reason for that is often times the most important business gets done at dinner, at parties, at conferences, at conventions, at product launch events, at annual meetings, on the golf course, at non-profit fundraisers. So, what do you when you walk into a party and don't seem to know anyone there?
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You're a professional, and that makes you human. You're human, and that makes you mess up. You mess up, and that means you apologize.