Missing from your job description

If you're working in an office, here are some of the checklist items that might have been omitted:

Add energy to every conversation
Ask why
Find obsolete things on your task list and remove them
Treat customers better than they expect
Offer to help co-workers before they ask
Feed the plants
Leave things more organized than you found them
Invent a moment of silliness
Highlight good work from your peers
Find other great employees to join the team
Cut costs
Help invent a new product or service that people really want
Get smarter at your job through training or books
Encourage curiosity
Surface and highlight difficult decisions
Figure out what didn't work
Organize the bookshelf
Start a club
Tell a joke at no one's expense
Smile a lot.

Now that it's easier than ever to outsource a job to someone cheaper (or a robot) there needs to be a really good reason for someone to be in the office. Here's to finding several.

 

[Heads up: Today's the early priority deadline for the summer session of the altMBA.

Also! Tonight, just after 6 pm ET, the one and only Simon Sinek is joining me for a Facebook Live conversation, on location.]