Why is company culture necessary for technical skills to make a difference?
Who is more essential: workers or executives?
Was Jack Welsh good for business?
These and other highly relevant questions are addressed when Career Success Accelerator Mark Herschberg joins The Rabbi and the Shrink.
https://www.thecareertoolkitbook.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hershey/
0:45 Origins of the career toolkit
How can an engineer (or anyone else) learn leadership, communicating, networking, teambuilding, and negotiating?
Not just for senior leaders but for everyone
3:00 What do you believe that others don’t?
Why soft skills need another name, and technical skills are not enough
Ben Parker’s wisdom
Expand your rectangle for greater success
Improve your weakness as well as your strengths
9:00 How to build a high-power network
More is not always better
Seek quality over quantity
What can I give, not what can I get
14:00 How to make quality connections:
Show that you know who they are
“Here’s an offer to help (not sell)”
Follow up without hounding
17:00 Leadership mistakes
Unlike authority, leadership is not positional
Why the best CEO does nothing
Who is more essential: workers or executives?
Why salary differential is both unethical and destabilizing
Was Jack Welsh good for business?
24:00 The importance of uncomfortable conversations
We need to change quarterly projections and optimization
B-corps vs. C-corps
Not maximizing profits may be the key to success
Create longer term incentives and obligations
30:00 Temperament and consistency
Stated vs. practiced values
“Blame me” for asking about corporate culture
34:00 The word of the day: instantiate
Embody, epitomize
to represent (an abstraction) by a concrete instance.
Having real-life examples the demonstrate principles of wisdom, we can better put those principles into practice
Create your own community to develop these skills and mindset
