Get Paid More and Promoted Faster Book Summary
I read this book long time ago, found these notes today, hope it helps.
You are in charge. You are the architect of your own career. You largely determine everything that happens to you, especially in the long term. Your chief responsibility to yourself in your work is to increase your ROE, your 'return on energy'.
Your main goal should be to get the highest return on the part of your life that you invest in your job. Your aim should be to get paid the very most possible for the amount of time you spend.
No matter who signs your paycheck, you are always your own boss. You are always self-employed. In the long run, you determine how much you get paid, how fast you get promoted, and everything that happens to you. You are responsible.
1. Decide Exactly What You Want
The world has a habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.
You can't hit a target you can't see. Define your ideal job and never stop striving until you get it.
2. Select the right company
The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be—today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.
Do your homework and be sure you are committing yourself to a company where you can make the greatest progress.
3. Choose the Right Boss
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
Be sure that you like, respect, and feel that you can perform at your best for this boss.
4. Develop a Positive Attitude
Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts he has built into his character have brought him there.
Look for the good in every situation and dedicate yourself to being the kind of person that others want to work with and help succeed.
5. Create a Successful Image
Most people are highly visual; they therefore judge you by the way you look on the outside, the same way you judge them.
Take the time to dress, groom, and look like a winner in all your work activities.
6. Start Earlier, Work Harder, and Stay Later
The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers, and to use them to their height is our joy and duty.
Always look for ways to go the extra mile, to do more than you're paid for.
7. Push to the Front
Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
Dedicate yourself to making the most valuable contribution you possibly can.
8. Ask for What You Want
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
Speak out clearly and ask for more responsibility, more opportunities, and more money.
9. Guard Your Integrity as a Sacred Thing
Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage; true success follows every right step.
Be honest, straightforward, and truthful in all your interactions with others.
10. Think about the Future
Visualize this thing that you want. See it, feel it, and believe in it. Make your mental blueprint anf then begin to build.
Continually look for ways to improve your company and your work in the weeks and months ahead.
11. Focus on Your Goals
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Determine exactly what you want to achieve, and work on your major goals every single day.
12. Concentrate on Results
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem or goal incessantly without growing weary.
Focus your mental and physical energies on getting the most important results in your job.
13. Be a Problem Solver
The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Continually look for better, faster, cheaper ways to solve the problems facing your company and your boss.
14. Unlock Your Inborn Creativity
The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster, or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
Practice tapping into your mind to come up with ideas to help your company get results faster, cheaper, and easier than ever before.
15. Put People First in Everything
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Look for ways to help your boss and others make their greatest contributions to the company.
16. Invest in Yourself Continually
Let me look upward into the branches of the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
Read, study, attend seminars, and listen to audio programs every single day to increase your knowledge and skills.
17. Commit to Excellence
Your success in life will be determined more by the depth of your commitment to excellence than by any other factor, no matter what your chosen field.
Resolve to become very good at doing those things that are really important to your company and to your customers.
18. Concentrate on the Customer
No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
Place the needs and well-being of your customers at the center of all decision making.
19. Focus on the Bottom Line
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are those who have faith in the money producing power of their ideas.
Treat every source of revenue and expense as if it were your own money and always look for ways to improve the financial results of your company.
20. Develop Positive Personal Power
Today, knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Resolve to become the kind of person with the expertise and the personality to get ever greater results for your organisation.
21. Get the Job Done Fast
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Develop a reputation for being the person who gets results faster and more dependably than anyone else.
Today, the primary sources of wealth are talent and ability, knowledge and ideas. Money and resources flow to the men and women who demonstrate that they can get the job done quickly and well.
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