🪜📈🏢 3 High Leverage Career Skills (From a Principal At Amazon)
📝🐒 Human Notes
- 📈 High leverage = more output for less input
- 💡 Themes: leverage & career capital
🚀 3 High Leverage Career Skills
🥇 1. Start a Brag Document
📝 Make a text document you can access from anywhere.
✍️ Every time you do something impactful, write a paragraph with details about when it happened, when it happened, and who was involved.
✨ This is high leverage because it takes very little time to record, yet you keep the reference forever. 📚 You now have plenty of stories for resumes, interviews, promotions, and performance reviews.
🚫 Don’t record anything that isn’t noteworthy, impactful, or can be easily looked up.
🗣️ 2. Get and Stay Good at Interviewing
👂 Active listening is key to being a good interviewer and a good listener.
🙅♀️ 3. Learn when to say no
🛑 Get better at saying no by understanding when you should say yes.
⛔ You need to say no more.
📉 Because most work is not impactful.
❌ Say no 10x more than when you say yes.
✅ Say yes when
- ➕ There’s an outsized benefit to saying yes vs the effort you put in.
- ❤️ If there’s big benefit for the person who’s asking
- ⌚ If you have the bandwidth and it’s really easy. Use sparingly.
🚀 When there’s high impact for you or others.
🏆 Can you add it to your brag document? Say yes.
📚 Book Reference
💪❤️ So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport