The Most Important Career Advice You’ll Ever Hear With Harvard Business School’s #1 Professor

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24:09 my favorite part, we talk to communicate not just jam our ideas to others, this is not a political speech if the person on the receiving end doesn't matter, we're not making sense. Also stay curious and keep asking questions.

She's so intelligent and almost always ahead of the curve in her thinking

But the host is speaking more than the guest

Ur English accent is horrible

I think these suggestions are useful only when the workplace is healthy enough to recognize value.

I did all of this. I asked what the company needed, how I could add more value, how I could make my manager’s work easier. I brought solutions, documented my work, started earlier, stayed later, and built an administrative structure that did not exist before.

After 12 years, I manage the administration of five companies alone. There is no real team, no effective backup, and when I am absent the work stops or piles up. Yet when I ask for recognition, the answer is basically: “You are just doing your job.”

That is the part these kinds of career suggestions often miss. In some companies, becoming indispensable does not lead to recognition. It leads to more work, more pressure, and more denial. If you solve problems before they explode, nobody sees them. If you stop solving them, you become the problem.

There is also a power issue. Sometimes the employer understands your value perfectly well, but recognizing it would mean admitting that your role, level, and pay no longer match the responsibilities you carry.

And at a certain age, walking away is not always a simple option. The job market may treat experience as a cost, not as value. So you stay, not because you do not know your worth, but because the system gives you very few safe exits.

So yes, these suggestions can work. But only where value is genuinely negotiable. In dysfunctional workplaces, the problem is not that you failed to communicate your value. Sometimes the value is clear. They just do not want to recognize it.

Thank you❤

mel, you should absolutely not be expecting your employees to come in early and stay late. they have a contract that defines how much time they work and how much they get paid. if they work more than that you are under paying them. this is awful to hear from a boss.

So Mel, you expect your employees to stay after their working hours?! ( most likely for free, right). Repulsive mentality. SHAME ON YOU. That is abusive.Great to learn your true colors, unsubscribing your channel .

Do you have any useful advise regarding improving communication as a leader of a crew with language barriers? There are 12 associates on my crew and 5 different languages

I love this topic and listening here from the Philippines as an MBA student. Thanks Mel Robbins for this fruitful topics everyday.

Playing Funny good ghost 😂

Kind of what the current Presidents goal is, he's a great negotiator with the largest fix, Our Country ~ 🇺🇲

Omg I love love this episode. I finally understand the value I have for my company, my job. Thank you for sharing, Mel!

theres a reason why youre quiet. Youre quiet because youre in a wrong place to work.

What's an amazing class! change anxiety to excitement

Lol this is so out of touch

"what if it all works out" 😌

Agree!!

I agree. We all need work life balance and things we need to do between 5pm at COB and a descent bedtime of 9pm

Circled back to this- such a great video!

Cry is good hapets, why, cause peatifull face, like you, will be agly face, without cry 😦❤❤🤒

Standing out is not my problem. I stand out naturally for some reason cause people always look at me first when I walk into a room and ask me lots of questions if I look a slightly friendly at work, so everyone observes me, my actions (I’m a young female at a corporate). The problem is I stand out too much and people expect a lot from me.

I feel so much relief and that heaviness lift on me after listening to this podcast. It is actually speaking and saying the importance of living in a good place in life overall. Simply ask meaningful questions

I was friendly, communicative, extremely hard working, amazing feedbacks from everybody, everything delivered on time with the highest quality, protected my team, took over new taks, always respectful and positive, announcing what I achieved....and only 1 person had true devotion towards me respecting my hard work and support for him. The other direct leader just used me, 0 real devotion or emotional attachment towards me, only a facade approval, but when the push came to shove 0 true help, she helped only those who spent most of their time interracting with her instead of work. Probably saw me as competition even if I never was one.

Thanks for sharing this beneficial information ❤

I really appreciated this conversation. It confirmed the need for meaningful conversations and connections even in a professional setting. I'm excited to read the book and added it to my, "books to read" list. Thanks for sharing this insight with your YouTube community!