They all took initiatives in doing things they thought needed to be done.
Initiative (noun) - The ability to use your judgement to make decisions and do things without needing to be told what to do.
Although she was quite young, she showed a lot of initiative and was promoted to manager after a year.
Knowing what to be done requires you understand the context around you. If you work at a small startup, it might mean working where the business is currently at and where it's heading. If you work at a large company, it might mean knowing the position of your team, its relationship with partner teams, and its commitments.
But that's not what it really takes. The underlying requirement is to care, care enough that you actively think like an owner of the business or an owner of your team. I think it comes naturally if you are in a management position. After all, that should be explicitly part of your role. But if you want to stand out like a rockstar, that's what it takes.
But that's not the hard part. Proactively thinking as the owner of the company you work for is not as hard as thinking as the owner of your life. It's unfortunate how easily it is to forget we are writing stories of our lives day by day, either by copying other's or creating our own.
Knowing what needs to be done
They all took initiatives in doing things they thought needed to be done.
Initiative (noun) - The ability to use your judgement to make decisions and do things without needing to be told what to do.
Although she was quite young, she showed a lot of initiative and was promoted to manager after a year.
Knowing what to be done requires you understand the context around you. If you work at a small startup, it might mean working where the business is currently at and where it's heading. If you work at a large company, it might mean knowing the position of your team, its relationship with partner teams, and its commitments.
But that's not what it really takes. The underlying requirement is to care, care enough that you actively think like an owner of the business or an owner of your team. I think it comes naturally if you are in a management position. After all, that should be explicitly part of your role. But if you want to stand out like a rockstar, that's what it takes.
But that's not the hard part. Proactively thinking as the owner of the company you work for is not as hard as thinking as the owner of your life. It's unfortunate how easily it is to forget we are writing stories of our lives day by day, either by copying other's or creating our own.
Knowing what needs to be done - Sihui Huang