#6: Don’t Assume You Know Everything You Need to Know

If you’re going to get this next job and flourish in your field or in a new one, your success will boil down to living with this question: How will I ward off irrelevance?

The answer is to continually think about how to stay relevant. How to have the knowledge, skills, and mindset that will help your employer, or a new one, to be successful, help keep customers happy, and entice new ones. You do that by making self-development a priority.

Peter Drucker, hailed as the father of modern management, was one of the most influential business and social thinkers of our time, inspiring the likes of Tom Peters, Jack Welch, and Andrew Grove. In his book, A Class with Drucker (AMACOM, 2007), William ...

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