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#Leadership : I Wish I Knew Then: 6 Power Women Share Most Valuable Career Advice …”Surround Yourself with People Who are Smarter than You. You Should Never Be the Smartest Person in the Room. Worry if you Are. ” -Jessica Alba, Founder & Chief Creative Officer, The Honest Co.

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What if you had the opportunity to ask today’s most successful leaders to identify the single most important lesson they’ve learned on a given topic? And what if those same leaders were willing to drill down on their personal experiences and share key insights in an honest and relevant way? My guess is that it would be a game-changer for many of us.

 

“The One Thing” is a new series dedicated to tapping into the wisdom of today’s most dynamic thinkers and ‘doers’. What’s ‘The One Thing’…. about career success, or work-life wellness, or bouncing back from failure…that you absolutely need to know in order to better navigate those types of events in your own life? This series will be a one-stop, go-to guide for women who are looking to embrace the success strategies of proven leaders, across industries and across generations.

Everybody can benefit from a mentor. And while we can’t hit fast forward on personal experience, we can draw on the life lessons of others to enhance our growth or simply help us manage all that we’re looking to accomplish each and every day.

“Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. You should never be the smartest person in the room. Worry if you are. ”

–Jessica Alba, Founder & Chief Creative Officer, The Honest Co.

Have A Bias For Action

“I would echo what my mother told me, ‘You’ve got to have a bias for action.’ The hockey coaches and the basketball coaches always say, “You will miss a hundred percent of the shots that you never take.” My mother encouraged me to try things that I wasn’t sure I could do. Over my life, I’ve been able to try things, many of which have worked that I didn’t necessarily think they would. Be brave. The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. ”

–Meg Whitman, CEO, HP

 

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Leadership Is All About Adaptability

“Darwin said those who survive are neither the strongest nor the most intelligent, it’s those that can adapt to change. And I wish I had thought about that when I was younger because it always seemed to me that you had to be the brightest or the strongest. There’s something to be said for adapting to change. That doesn’t mean abandoning your values, but it does mean recognizing that the environment has changed and absorbing that .”

-Anne Finucane, Vice Chairman and Global Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer,Bank of America BAC +0.00%

Stay Open To Opportunity

“Be ready. Just be ready.  You just don’t know what opportunity might be out there.  It may not even be a path that they were thinking of.  But other people see your possibilities there.  I never intended to run for Congress.  I never intended to run for leadership.  Other people came to me to encourage me to do so.  And I was ready.”

–Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic Leader, The U.S. House of Representatives

Stay True To You

“I would say always, to thyself be true. We’re all born with what we have. Take what you have and do the best you can with it . Know who you are…Feel your way through life. Don’t over-think your way through life, because I think we’re all guilty of that.

–Angela Ahrendts, Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores, Apple

It’s All Going To Be Ok

 “I would tell myself to relax, that everything works out the way it’s supposed to. If you look back on your life at the things that you stressed out, ‘Oh my gosh, he didn’t ask me out, he didn’t call, I didn’t get that job, I lost that job,’ quite often in the end when one door closes, another one opens. Everything, even though you don’t believe it at the time, works out the way it’s supposed to–the good and the bad.

–Gayle King, Editor-at-Large, O, The Oprah Magazine; Co-Host, CBS This Morning

 

Forbes.com | September 28, 2015 | Moira Forbes

Your #Career : 6 Career Tips that Will Make You Future-Proof…Ask for Feedback of the Perfect Person Doing the Perfect Job in your Role,You’ll get Feedback you can Use.

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How can you tell whose career advice you can trust? Is she a human resources expert who has written the book on creating attractive workplaces for top talent? Is she a personal development expert who’s written the book on acquiring new skills today for the office of tomorrow?

 

“Ask for feedback of the perfect person doing the perfect job in your role,” Karie Willyerd said. “You’ll get feedback you can use.”

Karie Willyerd is. The SuccessFactors workplace futurist has co-authored The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today and Stretch: How to Future Proof Yourself for Tomorrow’s Workplace — after co-founding what is now the SAP Jam platformand serving as the chief learning officer of Sun Microsystems.

Willyerd shared six tips for personal growth during her “Future Proof Yourself for Tomorrow’s Workplace” breakout session at SuccessConnect 2015 last month:

 

No. 1: Pick a Couple of Projects to Approach from a Development Stance

“Take the five to seven projects that you’ve got,” Willyerd said, “and think about, ‘What stage am I at?’”

Most of those projects will be stuff that just needs to get done, but one or two will deserve a Development Stance, Willyerd stated. That’s because they parallel our career trajectory, making us want to learn more about them via an in-depth certification course, a 15-minute conversation with an expert, or something in between.

Prioritizing what’s on your to-do list is the crucial first step.

“Just by thinking about it,” Willyerd said, “you will learn more.”

 

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No. 2: Get the Right Feedback — From the Right People

“The people who are full of the most feedback that you need are your peers,” Willyerd said. “That’s why peers rate you the hardest”

Create some distance between you and the peers you seek out, Willyerd stated. Make it safe for the people giving feedback to you — not safe for yourself.

“Ask for feedback of the perfect person doing the perfect job in your role,” Willyerd said. “You’ll get feedback you can use.”

No. 3: Identify Your “Five to Thrive”

“This isn’t your mentor; this isn’t your boss,” Willyerd said. “These are just five people who make you a better person at work.”

It’s all right if you can’t think of five people right away, according to Willyerd. But once you’ve got your list, try to meet with each person on it at least four times per year.

No. 4: Get In Over Your Head

“You need to feel like you’re in over your head,” Willyerd said. “If you’re not, you’re not stretching.” (Remember the name of Willyerd’s second book?)

In over your head feels like you’re not sure you can do the job, according to Willyerd. Staying in your comfort zone keeps you from moving to the next level of who and what you could be. So assume your Development Stance, and volunteer, travel or teach a seminar.

“There are all kinds of ways that you can gain experience,” Willyerd said. “There are lots of things you can do that could stretch you out beyond what you normally do.”

No. 5: Ask your boss, “What do you hope I’ll learn from this assignment?”

“I don’t advocate that you stay working for bad bosses,” Willyerd said. “But I also don’t advocate that you stay working for comfortable bosses either because they will leave you stuck.”

Good bosses will push you to help develop your skills. Willyerd shared an example of a woman who had stayed in a role for a surprisingly long time because she liked that her manager continually took steps to help her grow. She didn’t think she’d find that anywhere else.

“It’s so easy, and it costs the company nothing if managers would just frame work in terms of what the person will learn,” Willyerd said. “If you’re on the receiving end, you can ask your boss if there’s anything he expects you to learn.”

No. 6: Announce Your Goals, Gain Supporters

“Let’s say you decide to make a big change,” Willyerd said. “You have to help people shift their thinking about you.”

Willyerd knew a man who decided to shed his well-earned reputation for being late to meetings. But arriving early to every meeting for six months didn’t change his reputation. So he began announcing before every meeting that it was a few minutes before the start time, jovially suggesting that the meeting start early.

“Once people put you in a bucket of what your behavior is, they leave you in that bucket,” Willyerd said. “Help them get out of that bucket … announce your intent to change, and then follow through with it.”

Get What You Need

Willyerd expounded on point No. 2 after her breakout session. Watch the video below for more on how to get the feedback you need.

This story originally appeared on SAP Business Trends. Follow Derek onTwitter: @DKlobucher

 

Forbes.com | September 14, 2015 | Derek Klobucher,SAP