23Keep Tabs on Your Friends

Document Your Network

BY NOW YOU’VE FIGURED out that you can’t improve your leadership skills completely on your own. The very essence of being a leader means interacting with others; that’s why you got into this business, to work with people (yes, it’s right there in the job description). The fact is, you need other people—and not just to have someone to lead. You need others to provide feedback, ideas, and encouragement. You need people to exchange information with, to seek answers from, and to connect you with other people. Perhaps most important, you need people who will say nice things about you if you ever need a recommendation (who hasn’t experienced that lately?). In short, if you want to pull yourself up by ...

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