“You Are A Mogul: How to Do the Impossible, Do It Yourself & Do It Now” by Tiffany Pham (Simon & Schuster, $27).Mogul (n.) — an important or powerful person. At 27, Pham developed onmogul.com, an award-winning platform for women worldwide to share their accomplishments, their concerns, exchange information and access knowledge. She’s a mogul […]
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“You Are A Mogul: How to Do the Impossible, Do It Yourself & Do It Now” by Tiffany Pham (Simon & Schuster, $27).
Mogul (n.) — an important or powerful person. At 27, Pham developed onmogul.com, an award-winning platform for women worldwide to share their accomplishments, their concerns, exchange information and access knowledge. She's a mogul who believes women should be “bold and daring and should pursue positions of influence and impact.” Here's her advice:
Define what you want and why you want it. Create an “I'm going to stand out” storyline that outlines how from beginning to end. With quiet confidence, you must take actions that sell your story every day.
Be flexible, too. Your story involves others. Their actions have an impact on your story — but not its goal. Flexibility also involves evaluating paths that present themselves over time. Look for “accelerators” that develop skill sets, s-t-r-e-t-c-h outside the comfort zone and relationships that connect new dots.
Do more than what's expected in your job description. Look at the organizational picture; use interactions with your team and those in other areas that intersect your job/department to identify additional ways to contribute. Volunteer to take on projects.
“Develop your hustler mentality.” When colleagues and management see you as someone who distinguishes between activity and progress and gets jobs done, you become a go-to resource. As such, more opportunities will come your way.
Key takeaway: “It doesn't matter how you start, where you start or why you start. All that matters is that you start.” You don't want to play regret's game: “Woulda, coulda, shoulda.” Live your story by making things happen.
