ConclusionYour Wakeup Call: Now, Make It Happen

If your career strategy is based on being smarter or working harder or reliably delivering results, you are making a big mistake. Being smarter is not the smartest way to get to the top. Working harder is the hardest way to advance your career. And reliable performance is the most reliable way I know to freeze your career in its tracks.

If you’re anything like I was for the first 15 years of my career, you find yourself getting more frustrated with every passing year. You can’t seem to get ahead in spite of your hard work and talent. You see other people having success, oftentimes in spite of glaring incompetence. You probably spend a lot of time wondering about the injustice of it all. How can ...

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