Tough organisations have a tendency to grind you down. The complexity, pressure, conflicting agendas, politics and bureaucracy all combine to make rapid progress extremely difficult. I don't know what your reputational ambitions are; however, I'm pretty sure that they will be closely linked to your performance. If you are unable to make rapid progress in your work, you are unlikely to be able to advance your reputation very far. Some people seem to have been born with tenacity, the rest of us need to keep working at it. If you want to develop your tenacity and persistence, work on these ideas religiously — and make sure you read to the end because these definitely apply to serious people working in Read More