What are your keys to growing a successful career?

1. Do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God.
2. Learn the tools and techniques of your trade or profession to the highest level of excellence you can achieve.
3. Remember you were the "new guy" once.
4. Treat subordinates and superiors with respect.
5. Be honest, accept responsibility.
6. Do the jobs others won't and do them well.
7. Learn to communicate well through multiple media and keep the "receiver" in mind.
8. Balance your personal and family life with your work life. All work and no play really does detract from job performance in the long run.
9. As a subordinate, you are entitled to one "yes, but," when your leader makes a decision you believe is incorrect; however, if your input is ignored or discounted, then shut up and do the mission.
10. Learn when to keep you big mouth shut and just listen.

Once upon a time (in the not so distant past) people worked almost cradle to grave at one job, one career. With the obvious exceptions of the professions (law and medicine) this is no longer true. And, even in those areas, technology is forcing changes that make their practice almost unrecognizable from the past. Thus we are all students for life, learning new skills, new knowledge. Learn something new every day.

1. Be competent in your trade
2. Never settle
3. Never stop learning
4. Stay hungry
5. Share your knowledge and success with others. When you watch someone make it and you know you had a part in their success well that's a feeling not too many people have felt.