What to Do When You’re Smarter than Your Boss. Article written by Robert Gatewood.
You successfully concealed your advanced degrees long enough to get an interview and land the job. Against incredible odds, you evaded the “multifaceted-experience” detection systems designed to keep you out. Now what? You can’t stay in the closet forever. Sooner or later, your over-qualifying experience will start to show.
8 Tips on Selling Yourself to Influential People By Christina DESMARAIS – Article No 2.
The most successful people in business often have friends in high places. Yes, it’s certainly possible to get ahead purely with financial acumen, a product or service customers can’t live without, or knowledge and experience that makes you irreplaceable. But often, it’s about who you know–people who like you enough to want to help you, lend advice, or award you their repeat business. Take some tips from a handful of successful executives who have some advice on the subject.
A leader who pushes a change agenda too hard risks building resistance and resentment, or even alienating his people. Here are three ways you can challenge the prevailing wisdom and make change happen quietly: