Why You Will Fail to Have a Great Career? by larry Smith

2. Either ways you are going to FAIL!
You want a GOOD career.
Or
You want a GREAT career

3. Why will people looking for GOOD careers fail?
Because GOOD
jobs are
disappearing
Because you will either have
GREAT jobs. GREAT careers.
OR
“High workload. High stress.
Blood sucking. Soul destroying
jobs.”
Larry Smithh

4. But what about GREAT careers! Why wouldn’t you make it to a successful GREAT job?
Because no matter how many
times you listen to Steve Jobs
Stanford commencement address,
you still decide not to follow
your PASSION. Your
DREAMS
Big Question is WHY!?
You will always have excuses to not do what you truly love and believe
in!

5. AND WHAT EXCUSES COULD YOU HAVE FOR NOT FOLLOWING YOUR PASSION!?
Too Lazy?
Too Hard?
You think you
are an Idiot?
And Confused.
Or you are just AFRAID to look for your passion. Your failure to identify it then becomes an excuse.

6. But the
BIGGEST of
all excuses
is:
“That great careers are truly and really for
most people a matter of LUCK!”
Larry Smith
BUT THE TRUTH IS

7. Or you end up believing
that only the GENIUSES.
Only the WEIRD ones can
become Steve Jobs.
And I only thought I was a
GENIUS when I was five!
When I wanted to DO STUFF!

8. Or maybe you are just scared of being STRANGE and WEIRD. You
think you know the fine line between MADENSSand GENIUS.
But successful people are PASSIONATE. And passions can
drive you CRAZY. REBELLIOUS. And keep you OBSESSED.
But NO! You want to be NORMAL and yet have a GREATcareer.
I AM LIKE THE NORMAL!

9. So I adopt the universal strategy:
WORK HARD
WORK REALLY HARD
WORK REALLY REALLY HARD!!
Work Hard= GOOD Career
Work REALLY+REALLY+REALLY
Hard= GREAT Career
Seems to make absolute MATHEMATICAL sense!!!
Yet you FAIL. You might succeed to get a good career but what about a GREAT one. That NO!

10. So you choose. What you want.
Work HARD. And a GOODcareer.
To live your PASSION. LOVE your work. And have a GREAT
career.
The choice is absolutely yours!
LINK TO TedTalk

11. These slides are created by Shifali Makkar, IIM Lucknow, as part of an
MBA course, Personal Branding (www.MBAskills.in), taught by Prof.
Sameer Mathur.
Prof. Sameer Mathur
IIM Lucknow, Marketing Professor, 2013-Present
McGill University, Marketing Professor, 2009-13
Carnegie Mellon, Ph.D. and M.S. Marketing, 2003-09
Shifali Makkar
IIM Lucknow, PGDM, 2014-16

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