The Fastest Way To Get Promoted (Career Cheat Codes)

You work with; you don't work for. And it's actually a pretty big mentality shift, which is working with somebody is a partnership. It's an agreement. It's a mutually beneficial thing. Versus 'I work for you' is... there's a dominant person and there's a person who just basically takes orders and does... whatever they have to do based on the the task list.

If you want to be a leader, what most people think is 'I'll wait until I'm promoted, then I'll start doing leader things.' That's not really how it works. You start doing leader things, and then you get recognized and promoted.

The newsletter thing isn't just for external. You can have a hundred-thousand subscribers on a newsletter, but if you're inside of a company, what you really want is 20 subscribers, but they're the 20 most interesting people in the company.

The other thing is you want to be a maker, not a taker. So most people in companies are just takers of plans—so somebody else writes the plan, somebody else makes the dock, somebody else creates the dashboard, and you just sit on the receiving end of it. What I would do, when I was at these companies, is I would always write my own versions of the plans.

You're really only rewarded for what people know about. If what you're doing can't be measured or isn't seen, it might as well have not exist inside of a big company.