Competitive Advantage of Common Sense: Using the Power You Already Have, The

Chapter 2. Know What You're Trying to Do

This chapter makes the age-old point that if you don't know what port you're sailing to, then any wind is a fair wind.

Questions

1:

Somebody asks you to come to a meeting “just in case we need your input.” What should you do? Refuse, on the basis that if they can't tell you the objective and your part in achieving that objective, it's pointless for you to be there. See who is is asking you to come. A request from a senior higher-up is much different from a request from one of your peers. Go, if it's a higher-up; refuse on the same grounds as in (a) if it's a peer. Go regardless—it comes with the territory. Go regardless, but bring your inbox with you so you can get some useful work done.

A1:

(a) 5 points This is ...