August 2022
Beginner
272 pages
4h 56m
English
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CHAPTER 9
EXPLORE NEW PATHS TO SUCCESS
GET MANAGEMENT TO NOTICE YOUR WORK
Al Dea is the founder of the consultancy Betterwork Labs, where he helps leaders redesign their workplaces to help employees thrive. (I introduced him briefly in Chapter 3.) But years before starting his consulting practice, he was an analyst at Deloitte.
In Dea’s first year there, he felt like he was doing great, hitting all his quantitative goals and impressing his managers with his work ethic. Then annual performance reviews came around—and he was shocked to receive a lower rating than he’d anticipated.
Dea was bold enough, or maybe just desperate enough, to take one ...