Tips to Success at Work - Top 10

1. Never escalate problems up to your manager.  Try to communicate up solutions, and ask your manager to help with strategy and communications. 

2. Place information on the wall of your cube or office that tracks performance
using unedited (raw) data.    

3. When mistakes are made in your group, jump to the head of the line to take responsibility.

4. Cancel any project that has lost momentum or is going sideways.

5. Use the "Power of Pretzels" to make friends and influence co-workers.

6. Coach management to use or fix their personal computers.

7. Actively re-direct credit and thanks to others.    

8. Use face-to-face meetings or the phone to communicate bad news or to disarm people that are blocking your projects.

9. Avoid long meetings by taking the initiative to organize short meetings and respond quickly to any e-mail and phone calls.

10. Dress one level - up that of your co-workers

(By:Mark Gallagher)