HERE is my latest contribution to U.S. News, published today.
It's a bit boy-scouty but I hope you'll nonetheless find it of value.
Monday, January 28, 2013
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Fresh ideas about career, education, the life well-led, and improving the world.
2 comments:
The social contract between employer and employee has been shredded and burned. The business exists solely for the benefit of the owners/shareholders. Anyone who doesn't like it can jump off a cliff. That's the new reality.
"Sweat the details". That is so incredibly important. I work at a medical device startup and we're doing last stage testing before our clinical trial.
I can't tell you how many times mistakes have been made because people didn't double-check their work. Not to give the wrong impression, everyone is competent but everyone is also on a really tight schedule, rushed, and frenzied.
You need to be almost a little obsessive and look a few steps ahead to anticipate what could go wrong, just in case.
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