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“If You Can Do Your Job From Home, Be Scared.”

“If You Can Do Your Job From Home, Be Scared. Be Very Scared… Put on a shirt and get into the office.”
Scott Galloway

Working from home is dangerous, especially for young workers…

“Offices are where young professionals establish relationships with mentors, colleagues, and mates.”

If you are young and ambitious, get to the office. But, even if you are productive at home, you will only be promoted if you learn how to build relationships.

Scott Galloway is a successful entrepreneur, and a professor. He speaks bluntly and clearly about life in today’s world. I may not agree with all that he says, but it always pushes me to think and clarify my own beliefs.

On Building Relationships

The Career Advice you Probably didn’t Get

You’re doing everything right at work, taking all the right advice, but you’re just not moving up. Why?

Susan Colantuono shares a simple, surprising piece of advice you might not have heard before quite so plainly. This talk, while aimed at an audience of women, has universal takeaways — for men and women, new graduates and mid-career workers.

Susan Colantuono: TED Talk, The Career Advice you Probably didn’t Get

Business, Strategic and Financial Acumen

Susan’s argument is that mentorship and organisation-wide leadership development have a tendency to focus on the personal effectiveness and organisation leadership aspects, but do not work with women to take full charge of their Business, Strategic and Financial acumen.

What are Business, Strategic and Financial Acumen?

Business Acumen: Understand your business, where it is going, what role you and you work play in it. Do you do your job well, or do you contribute to the success of the organisation?
Strategic Acumen: Look outside the organisation and see opportunities and risks. Do you take time to see the big picture within which your company operates? How are demographics and major political changes going to impact your organisation? Are you part of industry associations?
Financial Acumen: Aware of the finances of the organisation and flagging risks and highlighting opportunities to impact the numbers Can you read a balance sheet? Can you rapidly draw up a simple income statement of your division? Do you know the EBITDA, the contribution margin, the CAGR of the different products in your business?

The Hidden Secret Of Success | Raúl Cristian Aguirre

I had the pleasure of attending TEDxIESEBarcelona a couple of months ago. My good friend and fellow EO member Raul Aguirre gave a passionate talk on a special secret that has led to his success.

The hidden secret that led to Raul’s success

This talk reveals new insight about the real reasons of success of famous and not-so-famous people – and how to apply these principles to be much more successful – and happier – in any field.

Raul is the Founder and first CEO of Tango/04 Computing Group, Inc. He does wonderful drawings and has a cool instagram account @osplo. He Graduated in Computer Science (University of Buenos Aires), EO/MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Entrepreneurship Master Program, and the Superior Institute of MorphoPsychology (ISM, Barcelona). Designer of award-winning technologies (such as the APEX Award of Penton Media for VMC, USA, 2004) and products sold in more than 50 countries.

TEDxIESE Barcelona

Check out the full playlist of speeches from the first 2 editions of TEDxIESEBarcelona:

Career Advice From LinkedIn’s Billionaire Founder Reid Hoffman

Reid Hoffman says it took him 15 years after graduating from Stanford to figure out what he wanted to do with his career.

Hoffman eventually founded LinkedIn, a $19 billion public company.

On graduation, he thought he would become an academic. Then he started some companies. Several failed… then he created LinkedIn. It didn’t fail 😉

What lessons can we learn from Hoffman’s journey?

Expanding on ideas from his recent book “The Startup of You”, Hoffman and his co-author created a slideshow presentation called “The 3 Secrets Of Highly Successful Graduates”. The have graciously allowed me to republish it here.

What did you learn from Reid Hoffman? What are the key capabilities for navigating successfully in the career seas of the future?