I’ve been asked before if I would be willing to share any advice or tips with young people on how to be successful at work at a few different points in my career. As I think back on what I likely said in those early days or flip through the slides I’ve presented to classrooms in more recent years, the one consistency is that my advice hasn’t been consistent. At least, not entirely.  The skills I have emphasized or the mindsets I have promoted most have been slightly different

Confession time:  I think I’ve started and stopped and restarted working on this website about a half dozen times in the last two years and never got to a place where I wanted to hit publish on any of it. A big reason for that was a simple (and common) excuse: I was busy .  I was working a full time job where, more often than not, my work days started at 7 AM and didn’t stop again until 9 PM, breaking only to make dinner or go for a quick midday run to try and maintain some s