You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.

We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

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The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.

Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.

The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.