If you want to grow fast at work, here are 14 behaviors managers quietly reward.

Check the comments 🧵 1. You solve problems without waiting for instructions.

Initiative beats obedience.

If you’re building a career, here are 15 workplace behaviors that quietly accelerate promotions.

Check the comments 🧵 1) They deliver without being chased

Managers trust people who don’t need reminders.

If you’re preparing for leadership roles, here are 15 decision-making frameworks used by top executives.

Check the comments. 🧵 1) Eisenhower Matrix

Sort tasks into:
Urgent and Important
Important but not urgent
Urgent but not important
Neither

Do what truly matters first. Stop being busy and start being effective.

Yesterday I made a post, advising you to go and learn AI and how to use AI.

The comments were filled with one question.

"How can I use AI to build a career or earn from it?"

This thread is your answer The truth is, AI isn’t coming for your job. It’s coming for your tasks.

The people who’ll survive are not the ones who compete with AI but the ones who work with it.

So let’s break down how to build a career with AI, not against it.

Last year, I fired someone who was doing everything right. He hit every target, never missed deadlines, followed every process to perfection. On paper, he was the ideal employee, the type most companies would promote, not terminate. But he was destroying my team from the inside. It started small. Little comments in meetings.
"That's not how we used to do it."
"The new approach seems risky."
"I'm just being realistic."

Always delivered with a smile, always technically correct. At first, I thought he was being helpful, experience sharing wisdom.

I read a story sometime ago on Quora, by Nazeem and what he did is the perfect answer for this question.

This is his story.

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"I swear on my life and I swear in God’s name in whose Hands my life lies, that what I’m about to say is 100% the truth.

https://twitter.com/tosinolaseinde/status/1965323349879611510

I received a “regret e-mail” from a travel agency saying that the sales position I applied for is no longer available because my sales experience does not match what they are looking for.

I hit the reply button on my email browser and said the following word for word:

When I first started working with white colleagues abroad, I didn’t realize how big of a culture shift it would be. Back home in Nigeria, there are phrases and expressions that are so normal, you don’t even think twice. But in a new environment, one wrong word, one casual statement, can be misunderstood in ways you’d never imagine. I remember how I randomly joked with a colleague when I recently got here. This was the only guy that warmed up to me and reduced my nervousness on the job. We talked everyday and I felt a little comfortable.

We interviewed a product designer for a mid level role. He had a solid portfolio,good communication skills not just surface talk. Throughout the call,my recruiter was nodding, you could tell she was impressed.
Then came the question that always shifts the tone of every interview: "So, what are your salary expectations?"

Silence, then a hesitant laugh. He finally gave a number, but everything about his response said, "I’m not really sure if this is okay."
He said it too quickly, he undercut the number with his tone, he sounded like

Sometime ago, I paid one of my staff his salary and he wasn't happy receiving it.

It was the last week of September that year and as usual, salary week. We paid everyone early as always and there's this session we normally have after salaries have been paid. We call it "Happy Hour" session.

It's where every one of my staff come together to play a few games and basically have fun as they bond and wind off from the stress they accumulated while working.

Now, during the happy hour that day, I noticed Ayomide (not his real name)

One time, someone tried to mock me for being an Uber driver.

It was years ago. I was still figuring things out when I arrived here, doing multiple jobs to stay afloat.
One afternoon, I arrived at a parking lot to pick a client up, and someone I had known back home happened to be standing nearby.

He saw me, smiled with that familiar smirk, and said, "Ah, Tolu? So this is what you're doing now? Uber?"

You could hear the tone, not curiosity, but condescension.

Like I’d travelled abroad to become....just a driver

I knew a guy that taught lesson to secondary school kids years ago, especially students preparing for waec and JAMB.

He was good. Testimonies from his students confirmed how good he was. Even the parents of his students confirmed it. "Uncle Kenneth..." That was what he was popularly known as by the kids who mentioned him.
Very humble and quiet guy. We interacted on a few occasions because he taught my neighbours children.

His mother sold corn and pear with oranges by the road side and she roasted her corn

During one of our evening walks, my wife asked me a question I wasn’t expecting.

She looked at me and said, "Do you ever feel like all your efforts went unnoticed in the early days?"

I smiled.

Because that feeling used to sit with me every day. There were times when I would work on something for weeks, and no one would notice.

I would pour everything into a project, hoping it would change everything but it wouldn’t move the needle.

I would give my best to clients, and still not get referrals.

I once worked with a woman who barely said more than "Hello".

She wasn't exactly friendly, but she wasn't rude either.
She only minded her business. Came in early, left late. Never really joined our office conversations and banter or bought food with us.
You’d greet her, she’d nod and smile lightly. That was it.

"Why should we hire you?"

This is one interview question that gets people nervous. It's tricky, but don't worry.

Here's a simple way to answer it, and these tips will help you in whichever interview you find yourself; 1. Know the Company's Needs

Look at the job description closely. They have a problem, and you need to show them that you can solve it. Match your skills to what they're looking for. (Your solution means them hiring you.)

If you're in your 20s, 30s, 40s, e.t.c open this. Eric Yuan founded Zoom at the age of 41.... You know Zoom, the popular app used for so many organisations meetings and even interviews.

THE PAYPAL MAFIA

Did you know that there was once a group known as PayPal Mafia?

It's a group of early 2000s PayPal employees and founders.

Elon Musk,YouTube founders, LinkedIn founder and other notable apps and business CEOs today, were part of this group.

A THREAD 🧵 Many of PayPal's early employees went on to become major names in tech and the venture capital world, founding, funding, and otherwise developing successful companies.

This elite group came to be known as the "PayPal Mafia".

Saw this on Facebook and decided to share it here.
This is very helpful for your kids.
Education made easy.

A thread 🧵

You know or might have heard of @Tunde_OD (Tunde Onakoya) and the wonders, his project, Chess in Slums are doing. But how well do you know Tunde Onakoya?

By Stephen Joel

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Tunde grew up in Eko Lagos, his father was a spare parts seller while his mother was a petty trader. He has a brother who is two years younger than him. During his teenage years, he lived in a slum community called Isale Odo in Ikorodu. It was at Ikorodu that things got extra hard for his father.

Tunde's father was initially an owner of a danfo which he lent to other drivers