For Career Success, Pay Attention to the ‘Unspoken Rules’

Some people spend much of their lives—especially in the workplace—navigating unspoken rules.

You know, those cultural guidelines that never appear in a published handbook and rarely even come up in conversation. Everyone just seems to “know” the rules, so they’re simply followed.

Over time, the unspoken rules become fossilized as unchallenged traces of the past.

Many unspoken rules may be innocuous, while others may smack of unconscious bias or other blind spots that can impact performance.

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