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April 20, 2005
TIP #26: Read the Tea Leaves
To survive and thrive at work, you need to hone your tea leaf reading skills. Learning primarily through hindsight might work if you like being a Monday morning quarterback, but that approach is as helpful as my refrigerator magnet's counsel that "mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life." Sure, they are. But who needs an insightful reminder that you can't change the past.
What we need is a way to change our future. That's where reading tea leaves come in. Your goal should be to affect what is to come. You can't change how you've done, but you can change how you will do. Your future work-life is about the choices you still have to make. Read the tea leaves by learning to connect the dots and see the big picture and you'll make better choices at work.
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Posted by Nan Russell at April 20, 2005 08:56 PM
