10 Ways You Shoot Yourself in the Foot in the Workplace

Combining humor and personal experience, Nora Denzel shares what she learned as she climbed the corporate ladder at IBM and Hewlett Packard, emphasizing the 10 most common mistakes people make as they try to advance their careers—and how to avoid them. Series: UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series [12/2008] [Business] [Show ID: 15523]

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Education

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• business
• management
• career
• advancement
• IBM

[2011rhythmdivine]

For employees who'd like to go up the ladder of success in the company positions, this is the video you ought to watch. This is a very useful material.

[daro2096]

Poor woman, she is very nervous(camera shy?).

[mehFISH]

i types shoot your self and this i what i get get..lame

[Phazonaddict]

And uh-uh a-a-and. Stutter more?

[rayunseitig]

This is a great talk. Makes sence to me in a lot of lifes experiences.

[wasearcher]

more observations: to grow in your career it requires some discomfort, criticism helps you grow-don't resent it, find the rules you can change but pick your battles, you are judged on results, the higher you go the more you have to network. I would add a personal observation that attaining results by walking on other people gives only short-term benefits. What goes around, comes around.

[wasearcher]

I'm hearing: present an image of what you want to be (the "lie"), don't whine about unimportant details when you have a larger goal in mind, don't spill your guts about your personal life, have a professional goal and share that goal with people who can help reach it, find mentors who will share information, ask for what you want-don't wait for it to come to you, remember work is separate from personal life and relationships

[sedson52]

you missed the point. It is about using discretion and wisdom.

[VHudgensFan19]

Weird

[PavelSTL]

The title is a misnomer. It should be "Ten tips on how to play the game if you want to climb the corporate ladder" If you don't have ambitions to move up and you dislike politics, this is not for you. It's funny she keeps saying 'never lie', but insists on framing your opinion in a way that hides your true emotion. She obviously has the right credentials to talk and I don't, but I've worked enough to know that such strategy often backfires with people who can see through the bull$hit.