Career Success Formula: Skills, Relationships and Attitude
1. Kate Matsudaira, Principal / Urban Influence / @katemats
TECHKNOWLEDGE - JANUARY 2016
YOUR CAREER SUCCESS FORMULAand the conundrum of technical leadership
13. …chess players at the highest skill level (i.e.
grandmasters) expended about 5000
hours on serious study alone during their
first decade of serious chess play — nearly
five times the average amount reported by
intermediate-level players.
Published in 2005 in Applied Cognitive Psychology Journal
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• Make a list of the skills you have
(or could have) that are rare and
valuable.
• What would it take for you be the
best in the world at your job?
These are your GOALS.
• Carve out time for deliberate
practice and learning.
26. • Manage your manager - have
regular meetings and ask good
questions.
• Share your status. Make your
work known.
• Be on time.
• Work hard and make the most of
your time.
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47. • How can you build better
relationships?
• Expand your relationship
architecture: make connections
with influential people outside
your team.
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