All of us know one or two people who aren’t particularly good at what they do, and yet they always seem to be the ones who get ahead in life. They advance, while everyone else has to sit and watch.
It wouldn’t be so infuriating if they were the most deserving – the most intelligent, the most skilled, or the most hard-working. But it never seems to work out that way.
The simple fact of the matter is that it takes two types of skills to get ahead in the world today: the ability to do a good job and – what is becoming increasingly important – the ability to land a good opportunity in the first place. Unfortunately for most of us, our teachers only taught us how to perform well; they didn’t spend a whole lot of time showing us how to stake our claims – how to make sure we get the credit, rewards, and opportunities we deserve. That was supposed to be automatic.
Well, it’s not!
It’s a jungle everywhere! Throughout your life, you can expect that you will be out there too – over and over again – fighting for your place in the world. It’s not enough to be another good also-ran;...