Making the Most of Your Seat at the Table
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Making the Most of Your Seat at the Table
The game changes as you move up the career ladder — great tactics can get you more responsibility, but a great strategy can increase your circle of influence and your reputation.
Nilofer Merchant, CEO of Rubicon Consulting, talked during a special lunch at GHC on Friday. She gave attendees five things to do differently now that they've arrived at the table. Highly technical, academic, and business-oriented all learned skills to help them see and be seen in a new way.
These were the talking points:
- See your job, your role, and the big picture with clarity in a factual, unbounded way.
- Approach change openly and become generative listeners.
- Understand how decision making works and the value of incorporating uncertainty in it.
- How to live your values.
- And, why your EQ (or emotional intelligence) can be as important as your IQ.
Rubicon Consulting is known for its work on complex, high-tech business problems — launching new products, defining new markets, and fighting off massive competitors. Visit this page to learn more about Nilofer Merchant.