Your résumé lists what you did. The people around you remember who you were while doing it.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Records keep outcomes. People keep conduct, which is a much longer list: whether you were fair when you were tired, whether you took credit, how you behaved after a loss. Nobody writes that down and everybody remembers it. It also travels, which is how opportunities tend to reach people through someone who once worked with them rather than through a document.

Ask what a teammate or a coworker would say about how you have been this month, not about what you achieved. If the honest answer is not great, a week is enough time to change it. Conduct is one of the few things you can adjust immediately.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

How were you to be around during your biggest achievement?

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