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Achieve Personal Excellence
THERE IS probably nothing that will affect your career more for the rest of your life than your making a commitment to becoming personally excellent at the most important things that you do.
In every organization, there are two routes to the top. One route is through performance. The other route is through politics. Studies done on Machiavelli and management show that if you try to get to the top through politics, you will almost invariably be derailed some time in your career.
Dan Kennedy says, “Be careful who you step on when you are climbing the ladder of success because they will be waiting for you with drawn daggers on the way down.”
Focus on Performance
When you decide to get to the top based ...
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