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YES! ASK AND EXPECT IT EVERY TIME
Is what you are doing today moving you closer to where you want to be tomorrow?
ASKING IS A MUSCLE
If you were to measure how often you have asked in your career—asking for more budget or resources, asking for a project commitment, asking for clarity before making a key decision, or asking for more time so that you or your team can ramp up with additional training—on a scale of one to ten, where would you say that you fall? This is a performance metric that you want to keep a close eye on, because if your score falls anywhere below five, you are not maximizing your potential and you are leaving valuable opportunities on the table.
If you notice a pattern where the yeses are not flooding in, you are either ...
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