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What Advice Would You Give? (Part 2)

After reading Tim Walker's though-provoking What "Real Advice" Would You Give Your Company?, I clicked over to a related question posted in October of this year.

My work often brings me into contact with college students — undergrads and grads — who are 10+ years younger than I am. Sometimes they, in all their wide-eyed naivete, ask me for career advice. Usually, in all my megalomania self-assurance, I give them some.

(What Advice Would You Give?)

Tim provides some excellent advice, interspersed with delightful images of cautionary signs. I encourage you to read the full post, then think about what advice you would give.

Here's mine:

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What Advice Would You Give

Tim Walker (Hoover's Business Insight Zone) asks What "Real Advice" Would You Give Your Company?

Quick fix = easy.

Tips-’n'-tricks = easy.

Actually doing things better = hard.
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Even the best of us can fall for this illusion some of the time. In the business world, managers of high quality don’t believe in money for nothing. But even they can fall into the chasm between knowing that a problem exists and acting on that problem.
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It’s going to take more than tips-’n'-tricks to get them where they need to be. It requires real advice, which is hard to give and hard to hear.

YOUR Advice

So, that brings us to you.

• If you could offer it without fear of recriminations . . .
• If you knew that it would be heeded and acted upon at the highest levels . . .
• If you knew that your organization was willing to go through the hard slog of making itself better . . .

. . . what REAL advice would you give?

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