7 Ways to Dramatically Advance Your Career

Bruce Kasanoff and Michael Hinshaw

7 Ways to DramaticallyAdvance Your Career

They didn’t waste time updating their resumes…

The fastest way to advance your career is to drive innovation, rather than fall victim to

it.

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1. Eliminate your industry’s persistent pain points

2. Dramatically reduce complexity

3. Cut prices 90% or more… find a cheaper and better solution to an existing problem

iNav X iPad app vs. Garmin chartplotter. Images from iNav and Overton.

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4. Make stupid objects smart

PlantLink lets flowers text you when they need water.

5. Teach your company to talk

Apple, Google and Amazon are doing this already.

Source: Ubergizmo

6. Be utterly transparent… be more open and honest than any of your competitors

7. Make loyalty dramatically easier than disloyalty

Source: Origins.com

Don’t bet your career on a company that hasn’t changed

its business model since before cell phones were

invented.

Source: http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/gaynor/tree03.html

For more information…

Based on this LinkedIn article: http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130617120202-36792-7-ways-to-dramatically-advance-your-career

Adapted from Smart Customers, Stupid Companies by Michael Hinshaw and Bruce Kasanoff. You can download the Introduction and 1st chapter for free here: http://kasanoff.com/free-stuff/

Thanks to Flickr members John Jack Rice (cover) and Metro Transportation Library and Archive (#1).

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