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How to Take Your Life and Career to the Next Level the Intelligent Way
The abilities that will advance your career to the next level
It takes more than ability to make it in your career and life. Most of us in today’s world can get the education and training to provide us with the ability to become a doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer, and any of hundreds of other professions. Yet this alone will not give us what we need to advance in our career. What else is needed? Plenty!
Let’s start with something an author wrote more than half a century ago:
“There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.” Reaching Out in Management, 1953 — William B. Given, Jr.
We have developed an even greater understanding of what Given meant in his book in more recent times. He pointed to the necessity of creating more than the basic ability required to get a job. Today’s understanding of what is needed is far more comprehensive, hence the enormous professional development industry that now exists.
Before continuing, let’s get on the same page as to the meaning of ability. Its definition is:
“ability — noun: 1…
