Tag: LinkedIn

I should have tried to educate more people about agenda, marketing and seeing through it all to what lies beneath. To make up your own mind.

We need to learn how to respond, rather than react to other people online.

I was managing 9 staff and 250 rental cars with next to no experience, and I was shit at it. I was working ridiculous hours, running myself into the ground and hating life.

My biggest fuck up was growing up thinking that being older or being in senior management meant that you knew what you were talking about.

I was literally getting calls from the Group FD who was now running the business, as my wife went into labour.

I had little to no clue what I wanted to do with myself when I left school. My biggest fuck up is the time it took me to decide on a career.

Lessons learned: don’t be an arrogant prick, never show off, engage brain before mouth, and ALWAYS have empathy and respect for others.

I didn't seek out feedback early in my career and certainly didn't welcome it if it was given freely. I thought I knew everything and couldn’t see that you never really do.

The constant frustration that I wasn’t offered the tasks I felt best suited to. Despite being in the company for years, I felt like I was on the outside.

Yesterday I got a new connection on LinkedIn from a guy called Justin, who I'd never met before. He sent the standard "I'd like to...