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The world\u2019s worst boss<\/p>\n
That would be you.<\/p>\n
Even if you\u2019re not self-employed, your boss is you. You manage your career, your day, your responses. You manage how you sell your services and your education and the way you talk to yourself.<\/p>\n
Odds are, you\u2019re doing it poorly.<\/p>\n
If you had a manager that talked to you the way you talked to you, you\u2019d quit. If you had a boss that wasted as much of your time as you do, they\u2019d fire her. If an organization developed its employees as poorly as you are developing yourself, it would soon go under.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m amazed at how often people choose to fail when they go out on their own or when they end up in one of those rare jobs that encourages one to set an agenda and manage themselves. Faced with the freedom to excel, they falter and hesitate and stall and ultimately punt.<\/p>\n
We are surprised when someone self-directed arrives on the scene. Someone who figures out a way to work from home and then turns that into a two-year journey, laptop in hand, as they explore the world while doing their job. We are shocked that someone uses evenings and weekends to get a second education or start a useful new side business. And we\u2019re envious when we encounter someone who has managed to bootstrap themselves into happiness, as if that\u2019s rare or even uncalled for.<\/p>\n
There are few good books on being a good manager. Fewer still on managing yourself. It\u2019s hard to think of a more essential thing to learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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