Why is company culture necessary for technical skills to make a difference?

Who is more essential: workers or executives?

Was Jack Welsh good for business?

These and other highly relevant questions are addressed when Career Success Accelerator Mark Herschberg joins The Rabbi and the Shrink.

https://www.thecareertoolkitbook.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hershey/

0:45 Origins of the career toolkit

How can an engineer (or anyone else) learn leadership, communicating, networking, teambuilding, and negotiating?

Not just for senior leaders but for everyone

3:00 What do you believe that others don’t?

Why soft skills need another name, and technical skills are not enough

Ben Parker’s wisdom

Expand your rectangle for greater success

Improve your weakness as well as your strengths

9:00 How to build a high-power network

More is not always better

Seek quality over quantity

What can I give, not what can I get

14:00 How to make quality connections:

Show that you know who they are

“Here’s an offer to help (not sell)”

Follow up without hounding

17:00 Leadership mistakes

Unlike authority, leadership is not positional

Why the best CEO does nothing

Who is more essential: workers or executives?

Why salary differential is both unethical and destabilizing

Was Jack Welsh good for business?

24:00 The importance of uncomfortable conversations

We need to change quarterly projections and optimization

B-corps vs. C-corps

Not maximizing profits may be the key to success

Create longer term incentives and obligations

30:00 Temperament and consistency

Stated vs. practiced values

“Blame me” for asking about corporate culture

34:00 The word of the day: instantiate

Embody, epitomize

to represent (an abstraction) by a concrete instance.

Having real-life examples the demonstrate principles of wisdom, we can better put those principles into practice

Create your own community to develop these skills and mindset