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#2I was about to write a snarky comment about non-descriptive link titles and then I read the article. It's really good and the non-descriptive headline is (presumably) part of it. ;-)
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#3Good article, but I still vehemently hate people who turn adjectives into nouns. I can't have a "horrible" therefor I have determined I am perfect at everything.
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#4Yep, you are your 'Horrible'. Deal.
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#5"whether you’re an individual or a manager, your job is to scale at what makes you great"
Great quote from the article, I have always wondered about scaling what I'm good at.
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#6Good article, but I still vehemently hate people who turn adjectives into nouns. I can't have a "horrible" therefor I have determined I am perfect at everything.
Try reading it as an adjective with an understood noun, kind of in the spirit of an "understood subject."
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#7 "You’re uniquely good at them and you not quite sure why."
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#8"You’re uniquely good at them and you not quite sure why." I don't know of anything like that... I know some stuff I'm pretty decent at, but there's thousands that are better than I am at each of them. So how can I "scale at what makes [me] great"?
Maybe think of it as uniquely good within your sphere of influence. I'm bottom of the bell curve in generic small talk when you dump me in the middle of a sales conference, but in the context of the IT department I work in, I'm usually put forward first to chat with customers.
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#9"You’re uniquely good at them and you not quite sure why." I don't know of anything like that... I know some stuff I'm pretty decent at, but there's thousands that are better than I am at each of them. So how can I "scale at what makes [me] great"?
Maybe think of it as uniquely good within your sphere of influence. I'm bottom of the bell curve in generic small talk when you dump me in the middle of a sales conference, but in the context of the IT department I work in, I'm usually put forward first to chat with customers.
I tend to think of it as the one-in-one-hundred trait. Given yourself and 99 other random people, what can you do that they probably can't?
That doesn't mean you're the best in your country, or in your field, or in the world, or whatever, it just means that you'll tend to be the best at a lot of small companies, and among the best at the larger ones.
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#10I just recently discovered, much to my own surprise, that I am in fact not a good businessman. I've got management experience, and I've done that exceptionally in the past, but it turns out that that's not the same as being a good businessperson. I have good ideas about policies and customer service and so on, but I really stink at paperwork and organization and all that kind of stuff.
I need a partner. :-(