Education plus experience once guaranteed a successful career, but not anymore.
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.
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 business and/or career surprises, one step at a time.
Your reputation as a potential leader may take years to fully develop, but it begins long before you manage a team or have a lofty title. Even when you're just starting out, your leadership reputation influences how much people trust you and whether they want to work with you.
The full scope of your personal brand includes the impression other people have about you, from your clothes to your technical skills.
The leadership component of your brand is particularly important because it's close to your core values. If you have a strong leadership brand, other people will have faith in your ability to deliver a high level.
Effective leaders know that what people value deeply will move them most powerfully in their work.
Because these leaders are aware of their own guiding principles, values, vision, assumptions and beliefs, they practice the art of not automatically defaulting to a behaviour that is inappropriate for the situation. Instead, they focus on appropriate situational behaviours.
Unless we are conscious of our default behaviours, we will automatically return to them. We can make choices about our behaviours only when we are aware of them.
Reference: Beverly E. Jones:” Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO: 50 Indispensable Tips to Help You Stay Afloat, Bounce Back, and Get Ahead at Work”
