30 Common Mistakes in Careers

Almost everyone can find at least one or two things they’ve done in the past in this article.

1. Overlook current task dreaming about next project, job…
2. Put Things Off, procrastinate, avoid making choices
3. Have No Future Plan
4. Don’t Answer the Tough Questions, afraid to fail or look foolish
5. Lack Vision
6. Make Yourself Invisible, zero networking
7. Don’t Develop Self, lack curiosity to train yourself
8. Lack a Filter, immaturity
9. Don’t Keep Your Composure
10. Lose Your Passion
11. Dwell on the Past
12. Never Commit on specific path, career, company, project…
13. Do It Your Way- never heed advice, accept criticism, follow directions, or solicit help
14. Are Self-Absorbed, do not listen, pitch in or help peers
15. Always Are Afraid, spend your energy in worries
16. never willing to take initiative
17. Never Challenge Yourself, blaim to circumstances
18. Not bothered to earn another degree, volunteer, network, master new languages and technologies, build a personal brand…
19. Listen to the Naysayers
20. Don’t Look Out for Yourself
21. Never Realize It’s a Competition
22. Stay with the company as they slash payroll and undercut their mission
23. Fail to Adapt
24. Don’t Communicate with Superiors
25. Grow Negative
26. Are Unwilling to Start at the Bottom
27. Break the Rules
28. Don’t Hang with the Right People
29. Lack Self-Awareness
30. Don’t think beyond tasks and details, and miss the broader strategic issues and shifts

Thirty Ways to Wreck Your Career by Bloomberg Businessweek