From the course: Planning Your Career and Your Life
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The efficient greyhound
From the course: Planning Your Career and Your Life
The efficient greyhound
- Let's have a closer look at the greyhound. So the greyhound is the person who goes fast, but in circles because they're efficient, but they don't have goals. The good thing about the greyhound is they get lots done. They're efficient and they're hard working, organizations love greyhounds because they just work without ever questioning why. So greyhounds function really happily if others are feeding them work. Providing you give a supply of work to the greyhound, they just carry on and that's great. But they might realize, suddenly when they have a midlife crisis, and they might suddenly think, hang on a minute, I've been running around this track for 10 or 15 years and I've not gotten anywhere. So at least you've realized at that point, but ideally you'd realize sooner than that, 'cause you don't want to waste 10 years and suddenly realize you've done that. So ideally the greyhound needs to stop running around and…
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What makes a person successful in their job?26s
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Six success factors for your career4m 12s
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The inputs and outputs of success5m 9s
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The efficient greyhound1m 52s
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The ambitious mountain goat1m 48s
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The plodding tortoise2m 14s
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The dreaming koala2m 30s
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The fun-loving kangaroo3m 21s
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The achieving eagle3m
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Why there are only six possibilities1m 51s
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Development plans for each animal2m 15s
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