The Benefits of Bringing Your Whole Identity to Work

Source | hbr.org | Sandra E. Cha | Laura Morgan Roberts

According to the conventional wisdom, if you want to succeed at work, you need to learn how to fit in culturally and play by the rules. The best strategy for success, the theory goes, is to downplay your differences—an approach that many cultural minorities, among them women and racial minorities, have embraced.

When we began examining how…

HBR Article: Feedback is crucial. That’s obvious: It improves performance, develops talent, aligns expectations, solves problems, guides promotion and pay, and boosts the bottom line.

Criticism is never easy to take. Even when you know that it’s essential to your development and you trust that the person delivering it wants you to succeed, it can activate psychological triggers. You might feel misjudged, ill-used, and sometimes threatened to your very core.

UNCOMFORTABLE은 상태에서 Success Story를 써 내려가는 Planning 된 활동 정도로 정리할 수 있을까?

Reconcile yourself to feeling uncomfortable,and follow three rules. 

Keep it Simple. Capture your strategy in a one-pager that address where you will play and how you will win.

Don't look for perfection. Strategy isn't about finding answers. It;s about placing bets and shortening odds. 

Make the logic explicit. Be clear about what must change for you to achieve your strategic goal.