Embedded reputations - that's one of the most daunting dynamics that can happen. You start as a secretary, or assistant, and you have that plastered on your forehead. My advice is that you have to do something - change companies, get a degree, or go to a training program. Or ask to be on a very hard assignment or project that no one else wants. You can do it, but it doesn't happen without true exertion.

It used to be you rose up through the ranks, and by the time you got a job as a boss, you had done the work of everybody beneath you.

It's a choice that you make and there's consequences. It's something you have to own.

You should ask for a performance evaluation. Ask your boss, where do I stand? I need to know what I can do better and what I'm doing well.

We call it your area of destiny. We urge people to build their careers at that intersection of what they're uniquely good at ... and what you love to do.

When I first met Jack, I was terrified of him. I wasn't expecting a fun, laughing, enjoyable, exciting guy. I walked into his office like most people, with my knees knocking together. I was scared.

Business is business and politics is politics and never between shall meet.