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The Fastest Way to
Succeed (or Fail)
Dustin
McKissen, CAE, CME
Marketing Strategist and Nonprofit Executive
There are a ton of articles online and on LinkedIn about
the ten things you need to do to succeed, or the one sentence that will make
you rich. Some of these articles are good, some of them are bad, most of them
restate the same principles. But the thing that amazes me is that they usually
overcomplicate things.
In my experience, the most crucial component of career
(and life) success is to just be a good person.
That’s it. You can break that apart, and turn it into
seven things you should do or not do, but in the end, just being a good person
will result in success more often than not.
I’m
Not Being Naive, But...
I’m not naive. Being a good person won’t help you avoid
hard times. Everyone experiences those. But hard times are easier to bounce
back from if there are people in the world who like you, and the surest way for
people to like you is just by simply being a good person.
Being a good person also doesn’t mean you’re not
competitive, or that you don’t occasionally make difficult decisions that
negatively impact people. It doesn’t mean that you don’t make mistakes.
What being a good person does mean is that you conduct
yourself with dignity and honor. When you compete, compete fairly and honestly,
with respect for the people you’re competing against. Beyond just being the
right thing to do, if all goes according to plan, you’ll have a long life. And
today’s competitor might be tomorrow’s client, colleague, employee, or boss.
If you have to make difficult decisions, decisions that
can impact someone’s livelihood, do it with dignity and respect, and the
knowledge that that person will remember that moment and your role in it for
the rest of their lives.
Being a good person also means being willing to admit a
mistake.
Being a good person also doesn’t mean being a doormat, or
rolling over for the sake of getting along. Quite the opposite. Being a good
person means standing up for yourself, for others, and for what you believe is
right. Doing that can be uncomfortable (at best), or even create some of those
hard times mentioned earlier.
_____
Thing for the _______ Reason
I’ve not always been a good person.
I’ve made big mistakes in my professional and personal
life. I’ve done:
wrong things for the wrong reasons;
right things for the wrong reasons;
wrong things for the right reasons;
right things for the right reasons.
The last two, including doing the wrong thing for the
right reason, are far more difficult than the first two. But they are far more
rewarding, in both the short-run and the long-run.
We’ve all known or read about people who reaped big
financial rewards by not being a good person. It’s a funny thing though, and I
never would have thought this when I was younger: the older I get the more
people I look up to. But even as their ranks grow, the people I look up to all
have one thing in common:
At some point in their lives or careers, they learned the
importance of being a good person.
****
Dustin
McKissen is a consultant, executive, blogger, husband, and father. He
is also a proud member of LinkedIn's
Publishers and Bloggers Group.
You can find him on Twitter @DMcKissen.
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