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If you're working in an office, here are some of the checklist items that might have been omitted: Add energy to every conversation Ask why Find obsolete things on your task list and remove them Treat customers better than they...

Missing from your job description

If you're working in an office, here are some of the checklist items that might have been omitted:

• Add energy to every conversation
• Ask why
• Find obsolete things on your task list and remove them
• Treat customers better than they expect
• Offer to help co-workers before they ask
• Feed the plants
• Leave things more organized than you found them
• Invent a moment of silliness
• Highlight good work from your peers
• Find other great employees to join the team
• Cut costs
• Help invent a new product or service that people really want
• Get smarter at your job through training or books
• Encourage curiosity
• Surface and highlight difficult decisions
• Figure out what didn't work
• Organize the bookshelf
• Start a club
• Tell a joke at no one's expense
• Smile a lot.

Now that it's easier than ever to outsource a job to someone cheaper (or a robot) there needs to be a really good reason for someone to be in the office. Here's to finding several.

 

[Heads up: Today's the early priority deadline for the summer session of the altMBA.

Also! Tonight, just after 6 pm ET, the one and only Simon Sinek is joining me for a Facebook Live conversation, on location.]

       

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