Minto Roy- WORKING HARDER/WORKING SMARTER
Minto's View:
I say it all the time: if you want to get ahead in life, outwork your boss. Success is hard-won. It’s not something that’s handed to anyone. And it takes sweat. Don’t ever let anyone tell you different.
Every time I take a trip to Toronto I am struck by just how much energy and drive there is in that town. Toronto is tiger country. People there are hunters. They know their careers drive their life and they drive their careers. By comparison, Vancouverites seem domesticated – tabby cats who want to find a patch of sun on the back of the sofa and stretch out for awhile. Nice pastime but it doesn’t get you anywhere. No corporation is going to recruit you off that sofa. No life transformations happen while you’re catching some rays.
Business leaders look for behaviour patterns. They know that early in someone’s career they have not achieved the results that would set them up for executive management, partnership or profit sharing. But if talent shows the right behaviour, we know the results have to follow. You can’t relentlessly focus on achieving goals and be the first one in and the last one out of your office every day and not eventually deliver results. Do the right things; get the right outcome. If you want to be on the career fast track, be a tiger. Outwork your boss.
Minto Roy
President
CareersToday Canada
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