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Your professional relationship with your manager is one of the most significant factors affecting your career growth. You are ultimately responsible for your own career, but your manager has more influence over your career trajectory than anyone else in your company, so it’s critical that the two of you work well together.
Junior to Senior
David Glassanos
A competitive advantage is how you position your service offering to make customers pick *you*. That means you need to be cheaper, faster, or better than the alternatives. It looks like this:
**Price:** You charge less money than the competition.
**Speed:** You have a faster turnaround time than the competition.
**Quality:** You do the best work.
In order to build a company customers want to spend money with, you have to have an advantage in one of these areas. The value has to be there for the customer.
The Sweaty Startup
Nick Huber
Failure is not a prerequisite for success. A Harvard Business School study found already-successful entrepreneurs are far more likely to succeed again (the success rate for their future companies is 34 percent). But entrepreneurs whose companies failed the first time had almost the same follow-on success rate as people starting a company for the first time: just 23 percent. People who failed before have the same amount of success as people who have never tried at all.* Success is the experience that actually counts.
Rework
Jason Fried;David Heinemeier Hansson
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