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3. SPEAK FOR
YOURSELF!
10.

4. When you
talk, do your
boss’s lips
move?

5. “Steve is always saying that
we should strive to be the
best, not the biggest.”

6. “Our goal is to be the best,
not the biggest.”

7. Old story:
Two stonemasons are working on the same
project. An observer asks, “What are you
doing?”

8. The first stonemason replies,
“I’m cutting stone.”

9. The second stonemason replies,
“I’m building a great cathedral.”

10. Using your own voice
demonstrates your
ability to speak for the
company, and that
you understand your
organization’s goals
and objectives.

11. 9. Be the smartest
person in the room.

12. learn stuff

13. KNOWLEDGE

14. Identify vital skills that
your coworkers lack, and
then become the expert
in those areas.

15. Be your own best teacher

16. self-made

17. Brazenly outshine
your peers.

18. “
Are you trying
to make us
look bad?
”
A FORMER COWORKER

19. Come in earlier, stay later,
learn more, do more…in
other words,
than everyone else does.

20. 7) Be willing to push
the stop button.

21. REASONS
PEOPLE REMAIN
SILENT
! They don’t believe it’s
their place to voice a
concern
! They’re afraid of
questioning – and
possibly offending –
their more experienced
co-workers
! They’re worried about
impeding approaching
deadlines
! They think someone
else will step forward

22. In reality, employees share
not only the right to reject
inferior quality, but also
to do so.

24. It’s not what
you know,
but who...

25. It’s not what
you know,
but who

26. “VOLUNTEER FOR THE
CRAPPY JOBS. ” Tom Peters

27. “Is it a or is it a
– a chance to do
Something Great?”
Tom Peters
Re-imagine!

28. Ask why.

29. We have a learned
intolerance toward questions.
Grownups teach us early in
life that

30. PERCENT
of employees say that critical
thinking and problem solving
skills are more important in
their fields today than they
were two years ago.

31. Why are
manhole
covers
round?

32. unspokenassumptions
“can only be identified by someone
who has not become hijacked by the
corporate conventional wisdom and
whose career success does not depend
on being able to apply it unerringly to all
business solutions.”
–Mike Brooks, “The Unspoken Assumption
Problem” Accountancy, September 2005

33. “If we have a cardinal
strategy that forms the
bedrock for all our practices,
it may be this: Ask why. Ask it
all the time, ask it any day,
every day, and always ask it
three times in a row.”
Ricardo Semler
The Seven Day Weekend

34. Ask

35. group·think
Noun. The propensity for people to
seek unanimous agreement, even
when overwhelming evidence
points to a different conclusion.

36. GROUPTHINK
occurs when the pressure to
conform within a group
interferes with the group’s
decision making ability.

37. CONFORM

38. A B C
Exhibit 1 Exhibit 2

39. Solomon Asch
Subjects went along with the clearly
erroneous majority 33 percent of the time
74 percent conformed to the
majority at least once
28 percent conformed more
than half the time

40. “The illiterate of
the 21st century
will not be those
who cannot read
and write, but those
who cannot learn,
unlearn, and
relearn.”
Alvin Toffler

41. By continuously asking questions,
you position yourself to provide the
answers, too.

42. 3. Share your knowledge.

43. Wally who?

44. “A basic function of leadership
is to produce more leaders,
not more followers.”
Ralph Nader

45. TWO.
SET YOUR
STANDARDS HIGH,
AND MEASURE YOURSELF
TO YOUR OWN STANDARDS.

46. Winston Lord

47. “In that case,
now I’ll read it.”
Henry Kissinger

48. Each person is the best
judge of his or her ability,
and the only one qualified
to answer the question,
“Did you do your best?”

49. Others will eagerly offer their
opinions on your efforts and your
results.

50. If you did, and others criticize
unfavorably, rest comfortably
knowing that you did your very best.

51. 1. Get involved
(on a nonprofit board)

52. Wharton University’s
Nonprofit Board Fellows
Program matches second-year
MBA students with area
nonprofit organizations.

53. Serving on a nonprofit board
exposes you to other leaders,
group dynamics, and a high-level
view of a business organization.

54. Alice Korngold
Fast Company
THROUGH SERVICE, YOU HAVE
TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITIES
TO DEVELOP AS A LEADER,
BECOME A MORE VALUABLE
PROFESSIONAL WHERE YOU
WORK, AND MAKE A
MEANINGFUL CONTRIBUTION
IN IMPROVING YOUR
COMMUNITY AND THE
WORLD.”

55. LIVE WITH INTEGRITY. THE
WORLD IS WATCHING.

56. In this age of instant
information, any
ethical misstep
is just a click away
from the world’s
desktop.

57. The barrage of news stories
reporting the transgressions
of powerful people is
creating an overwhelming
generalization among the
American population:

58. “A little man may
do a great deal of
harm; and pray,
why not a little
man do a great
deal of good?”
Cotton Mather, 1825
Essays to Do Good

59. By choosing to live with
integrity, you’ll help to fight
back the onslaught of
unethical behavior.

60. You might not get the
publicity afforded
business scoundrels
and dirty politicians.

61. But you’ll succeed in proving that there are still
HONORABLE PEOPLE
in the world today.

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