Something You Should Know about Getting Promoted

April 15, 2013

Interview with Emily Bennington, author of the book Who Says It's a Man's World: The Girls' Guide to Corporate Domination

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Mike Carruthers:
Have you ever stopped to think about how other people at your work think about you? It turns out to be pretty important.

Emily Bennington:
When you ask employers what is missing in the employees that aren’t achieving their full potential, one of the things that they’ll tell you that those employees, in particular, are missing the self-awareness.
 

January 22, 2013

Interview with Ray Fisman, author of the book The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office

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Mike Carruthers:
In organizations a common complaint is having to attend so many meetings. We should just do without them.

Ray Fisman:
We could do away with meetings is all useful information to travel up and down and across the organization could be conveyed by written reports and spread sheets. Though I would point out you’d be writing a lot more reports and putting together a lot more spread sheets if that were the case.
 

January 3, 2013

Interview with Thomas Corley, CPA, author of the book Rich Habits - The Daily Success Habits of Wealthy Individuals

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Mike Carruthers:
For the most part it’s assumed that wealthy people got that way because they inherited their money - but apparently that’s not true.

Thomas Corley, CPA:
85% of wealthy children never inherit a dime. We don’t have wealth class because 85% of the wealth comes and goes in 1 generation.
 

December 19, 2012

Interview with Erika Andersen, author of the book Leading So People Will Follow

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Mike Carruthers:
If you’re really good at your job the path is to get promoted into management and that’s where so many people fail.

Erika Andersen:
I can’t tell you how many good people who were good at their jobs I’ve seen yet blown out of organizations when they’re thrown into management leadership roles and don’t do well.