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How To Drive Your Career Forward From the Comfort of Your Couch
4 proven and time-effective ways to grow out a solid network
I like Robert Glazer’s most recent book entitled, “Friday Forward: Inspiration & Motivation to End Your Week Stronger Than It Started.” It’s fun. It’s also got some really good ideas and reminders in it. This is particularly true of the list of “life hacks” he shared courtesy of Morgan Housel, a partner at Collaborative Fund including:
“Marketing hack: Make a product that people need.
PR hack: Do something newsworthy.
Writing hack: Write every day for years.
Learning hack: Read a book. When finished, read another.
Organization hack: Clean up your mess.
Savings hack: Lower your ego and live below your means.
Investing hack: Give compounding the decades it requires.”
When it comes to career success, as Morgan implied, the best shortcut is not to look for shortcuts as the last thing you want to do is build your future on a rocky foundation.
That being said, one thing I noticed in Morgan’s more extended list is he didn’t provide any “hacks” for how to build and maintain an effective network, which is a massive part of career success. After all, opportunities come in all shapes and sizes but the one thing they have in common is they come from other people.
