Taking a role of significance in a change effort will provide you with the platform to do your best work this year.

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With energy, pay attention to when you do your best work.

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You simply want to be doing something that you love, or something that is logically going to lead to something you love, in order to do your best work.

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But where can you do your best work?

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When do you do your best work?

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You need to accept the fact that you are going to fail if you are going to do your best work, and you need to make sure that everyone on your team and, indeed, in your entire company understands it, as well.

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Admitting the "very real sense of the responsibility that comes with the role", he said he would enable staff "to do the best work of your lives".

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You turn down acquisition offers because you need to run the show, and you feel like your team is the best in the world and you can do anything with hard work.

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Think of your LinkedIn profile, including your endorsements, as a billboard to promote your best work today the stuff that brings you alive rather than work you can do handily, but with little enthusiasm.

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