Getting picked How do you get a shot when you have no experience? This is the first dilemma everyone faces. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: nobody ever says: “I want to make a risky hire with limited to no experience.” If you’re a diamond in the roug...

Don’t give advice, ask questions. Most people who have meritocratically risen the ranks to managerial positions have done so because of the skills and knowledge they’ve acquired to become valuable to their companies. They know more than their newer e...

The majority of the success you can achieve in your professional career won’t happen by accident. It also won’t be a result of dumb luck or circumstances. Instead, you will probably find that the professional situation you’re in will be largely a res...

This is a short post detailing how from a Sales perspective we managed to double our revenue from one of our Product categories in under 12 months. Now I am unable to share exact revenue numbers as I do not think our Senior Leadership Team or Board w...

The book has strategies and techniques for sales that seem counterintuitive at first but begin to make sense when Pink provides scientific literature to back his claim. His book isn’t just for salespeople; anyone can gain new insights from this book...

Here’s the thing: you’re here, reading this blog, looking for a few nuggets of wisdom to apply to your own career journey. You do this a lot. And you take information from a range of characters. Some are famous, some powerful, some have decades of ex...

We have a lot to do in our daily routines, but some people manage to do more. In this world, those who succeed to do more things daily, tend to thrive. Work well and be rewarded. Shallow and deep work A shallow one is when we do something in a mostly...

Let’s get into it. Here are 6 actionable tips that you can use to give feedback that doesn’t suck. 1/ Setting clear and concise objectives Before you give effective, actionable feedback, you actually need something to measure it against. These perfor...

My history of learning While studying at school I used conservative techniques to learn. Reading helped to get acquainted with information for the first time. Re-reading helped to solidify data. Doing practical tasks(and homework) to understand the g...

I used to hate the term “networking”. I remember walking home one day when I saw one of my friends rushing towards our career centre. When I asked why he was in such a hurry, he mentioned there was a networking event going on. He carefully explained...