the building blocks for a great career - advice from a successful businessman
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This is a presentation i gave to students at the Australian Careers Business College in Wollongong, Australia. It was an opportunity to provide them with guidance and advice on how they can build a successful career based on my own experience and success / failures!TRANSCRIPT
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Australian Careers Business College
Dream building around international volunteer work Wollongong, Australia November 12th 2013
Matthew Tukaki, Chairman of the Sustain Group, Director of the Board of the United Nations Global Compact
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My plan At 8 I wanted to be a museum director
At 10 I wanted to be a chemist
At 12 I wanted to be a business man and make extreme amounts of money
At 16 I was lost
At 17 I found myself – and decided I wanted to be a student politician
At 18 I ran for parliament
At 19 I feel in a heap
At 20 I wanted to be a business man and make extreme amounts of money
At 34 I was running a multi-billion corporation
At 38 the Secretary General of the UN appointed me to the governing board of a UN institution
At 39 I reached my I goal for this decade
At 40 I’ve decided to be global
At 50 I want to have a lot of money so I can farm, raise goats and relax
By 50 years old and 1 month I will be bored stiff
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By 50 years and 2 months I would have found a new role and set out for another 10 year journey
By 120 I would have had a heart, liver and lung transplant – won’t be able to keep up with all the young people and retire to raise goats again
Why goats? Because then you don’t have to mow your own lawns, you don’t have to feed them and they don’t answer back…..
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Building block 1: Having a plan is important, however silly it may start
Building Block 2: Stay the course
because the moment you deviate – the best laid plans come unstuck
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Building block 3: Building networks is fundamentally important to succeeding
in business
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Building block 4: Never be afraid if ideas however big or small, particularly if they
are your own
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Building block 5: Learn the art of diplomacy – don’t mistaken arrogance
for confidence
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Building block 5: Don’t drink more than anyone else at Friday night drinks after
work
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Building block 6: Read your “rags” – know what is happening in your world –
don’t be devoid of what happens around you
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Building block 7: Don’t be afraid of ambition – its ambition that will always
be scared of you
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Building block 8: Don’t mistaken life lessons for “hiccups” – learn the lesson
when it is small – don’t wait until it is overwhelmingly large
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Building block 9: in all things be interested in what you are doing try and
not be one of those people who just want to “get along” and do the “same
old, same old”…..
Unless you win lotto
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