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Career vs Passion: What should you run after?

HR Digest

Follow your passion and earn or build a career just for earning? What should you run after in the career vs passion dilemma. The question of following your passion or career-building is an existential question. Is passion the difference between having a job and a career? Passion vs. Career. The downside.

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Beware the Leader’s Curse

Lead Change Blog

This devotion can also be a curse, blinding you to potential flaws in your product or the holes in your strategy. The leader’s curse is a condition that can be very dangerous to the financial health of your company, your competitive edge, culture, and professional career. And it is more common than you might think.

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The Unimportance of Practically Everything

Harvard Business Review

His observation was that you could massively improve the quality of a product by resolving a tiny fraction of the problems. Interestingly, this team member is the most productive member on his team. In The Quality Control Handbook , Juran called it "The Law of the Vital Few." When he was young, he learned to push past his tendency.

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How to Manage People Who Are Smarter than You

Harvard Business Review

“It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.” Hill says you should also show a desire to help your employees advance in their careers. Find a way to add value to your team and help employees advance their careers. ” Here are some tips on how to make that transition as seamlessly as possible.

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How to Build a Strong Relationship with a New Boss

Harvard Business Review

How should you establish a positive, productive working relationship with your new manager? “Recognize that people do draw some impressions about you pretty quickly,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of Competing Against Luck and the HBR Guide to Office Politics. . How do you get to know them without seeming like a kiss-up?

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