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■ Send a note of appreciation to the parents of a subordinate.
■ Meet your CEO.
■ Attend a stockholders meeting.
■ Get additional power today by just taking it.
■ Ask your boss what he or she wants to achieve this year.
■ Ask your boss what he or she wants to maintain this year.
■ Ask your boss what he or she wants to avoid this year.
■ Ask questions like a reporter; use who, what, when, where, why,
and how.
■ Take on the task to learn the answer to the questions of what
they want to achieve, maintain, avoid.
■ Write down your current contact list.
■ Research your competitors (companies and individuals).
■ Put together a personal board of directors.
■ Introduce two people who want to meet each other.
■ Ask for what you want; don’t hope the person will know.
■ Visualize; make a movie of your future.
■ Turn a goal into an action plan.
■ Get a second wind.
■ Facilitate getting more output from team members.
■ Deliver difficult news.
■ Control your temper; hold your tongue.
■ Figure out what makes you tick.
■ Objectively evaluate your options/opportunities with your current
employer.
■ Copy behaviors of others who’ve successfully gotten to the top.
■ Market yourself through a champion who is higher up in the
organization.
■ Speak the language of the people who make the decisions to
promote.
■ Ask for help.
■ Work from a 30,000-feet view; understand the whole company.
■ Write a proposal for a promotion.
■ Seek out victors; applaud and interview them.
■ Don’t wear your emotions on your sleeve.
■ Develop a personal development plan.