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■ Cease excessive involvement in detail.
■ Motivate others.
■ Take a calculated risk.
■ Get out of your comfort zone.
■ Be memorable.
■ Be pleasantly assertive.
■ Initiate cost reductions in your department.
■ Compliment your CEO for the positive write-up in the Wall
Street Journal on the company.
■ Go to a social business function that you’d usually pass on.
■ Outline a business article for publication.
■ Write a letter to the editor of an industry trade journal.
■ Ask to shadow someone for a day in a totally different field
from you.
■ Go to an association gathering you’d normally pass on.
■ Delegate something you’d like to do yourself but know it
would benefit someone else to do.
■ Research competitors online, and look for a weakness your
company can address.
■ Take an oddball course online.
■ Wear a company logo cap or shirt.
■ Write a press release on your team’s accomplishments.
■ Represent your company at a community event.
■ Read a business biography.
■ Write your life story.
■ Write another accomplishment story.
■ Volunteer to teach a college class.
■ Google yourself.
■ Write a list of what you want to do in business before you die.

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