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■ Create a role to fill a gap.
■ Champion a company initiative with high visibility.
■ Work (for now) with people you don’t like.
■ Prepare for a “human traffic accident.”
■ When you solve a problem and you make issues go away,
communicate it.
■ Tolerate nothing that takes you away from your goal.
■ Follow-through, follow-up, don’t give up.
■ Have nothing be about “you” today, only others.
■ Help someone do one of the “to-do” things that has helped
you most.
■ Send out Christmas card–type greeting in July.
■ Do a random act of kindness today.
■ Train your administrative assistant.
■ Check customer satisfaction.
■ Stuff 100 envelopes for the church social.
■ Volunteer to pick up the out-of-town executive/consultant
visiting the office.
■ Ask a friend how you can help him or her in something he or
she is doing.
■ Start your spiral notebook log/journal.
■ Get a personal mantra/motto.
■ Meet a politician.
■ Tell your kids about your day.
■ Put a corporate spouse at ease in a stuffy office social gathering.
■ Don’t let a single buzzword slip into your conversation.
■ Whistle-blow something that needs to be made known.
■ Put your work into a 60-second briefing format.
■ Brainstorm.
■ Read; learn about China.
■ Get a physical checkup.
■ Remember the names today of the people you meet.
■ Quantify your contributions in dollars.
■ Get cross-functional experience.
■ Seek out some particularly difficult people to work with.
■ Tolerate fools and “stupid” people.