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You Accept the Need to Stand Out and Be Visible • 99

What Does Being Visible Mean? What Does

It Look Like?

If you choose to do this (because it is your choice), you

■ Go out on a limb.
■ Go the extra mile.
■ Distinguish yourself.
■ Resist invisibility.
■ Care about what you’re doing, not caring about being
photographed doing it.
■ Stand out but not grandstand.
■ Share the limelight.

Take on the most challenging, high-risk, and meaningful assign-
ments from the top leaders and the company. Do things people shy away
from and say can’t be done. Action and accountability make you visible.

If you’re doing good things with no regard to accolades, you’re doing
them for the right reasons.

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To excel, young executives need to distinguish themselves. Senior
executives are the ones who need to be impressed, and senior execu-
tives are always looking for ways to identify talent. So do anything
to make yourself noticeable by taking any assignment that comes.
Many times a senior executive will need something done and be look-
ing for someone to do a job. Unwise young executives look at this as
being “dumped on” or the assignment as being “beneath” their new
status. Wise young executives will say “Absolutely” to being asked to
do what appears to be mundane. And then they will do a great job
in filling the assignment, the senior executive will become more and
more willing to ask them to fill assignments, and they will be more
and more recognized. This is a first and important step in getting to