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In one Linkedin post, Nils Davis showed me how my resume (all of ours) should tell the story I want the hiring manager to know. Primarily that I am the role they are looking for.

Let’s face it, we have 6-10 seconds to get the hiring manager to know we are the one for them.

How?

Redesign our summary section.

Nils suggests the following format:

* I am a …

* I have …

* I have a reputation for …

This seems one heck of a lot better than a summary section with a bullet point list of skills.

Rebel Intrapreneurs are good at positioning themselves in their areas of expertise and selling themselves and their ideas. Nils and I discuss the importance of treating our resume as a sales letter.

More about Nils Davis:

His Linkedin post that we talked about

Nils Davis on Linkedin

The Perfect PM Resume

The Secrets of Product Management Podcast

His Book: The Secret Product Manager Handbook

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Bill Cushard on Linkedin

Bill Cushard on Twitter

Rebel Intrapreneur podcast website

Bill’s book: The Art of Agile Marketing: A Practical Roadmap for Implementing Kanban and Scrum in Jira and Confluence

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People join startups thinking they will strike it rich, but successful startup opportunities like this are the exception, not the rule. As Gus Bessalel, author of “The Startup Lottery: Your Guide to Navigating Risk and Reward,” tells me on Rebel Intrapreneur, “Don’t go into a startup, thinking you’re going to become an instant millionaire. You go into startups because of all of the experiences that you gain from being in that environment.”

Startups are intense. And it takes a certain personality type and risk profile to make the experience of working at a startup worthwhile.

Bessalel wrote The Startup Lottery to help Rebel Intrapreneurs like us evaluate start up opportunities. The evaluation has essentially three parts:

A self evaluation: Should I work for a startup?

A financial evaluation: What will it take for my equity to pay off?

A progress evaluation: Should I stay or have this startup?

A Rebel Intrapreneur should put all of these parts together before deciding on joining any startup. Bessalel’s book will help us do that.

I learned a lot from reading The Startup Lottery and my conversation with Gus. I hope you find it useful.

More about Gus Bessalel:

Gus Bessalel’s book, The Startup Lottery: Your Guide to Navigating Risk and Reward

On Linkedin

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More about Bill:

Bill Cushard on Linkedin

Bill Cushard on Twitter

Rebel Intrapreneur podcast website

Bill’s book: The Art of Agile Marketing: A Practical Roadmap for Implementing Kanban and Scrum in Jira and Confluence

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I admit that I do not have a codified set of core beliefs, values, principles, or whatever else you want to call them. I know that I should have them, but I don’t. It’s something I’ve procrastinated. Successful people I know have told me that they procrastinated it too, but when they finally put in the work to write out their core beliefs, everything changed for the better.

So when I had the opportunity to talk to Robyn Bolton, founder & chief navigator at MileZero, about innovation, I wanted to spend time talking about her 5 core beliefs because her short list says a ton about how she views innovation and how she helps her clients do great things.

Robyn Bolton’s 5 core beliefs:

* Innovation is something different that creates value.

* Innovation requires curiosity, courage, and commitment.

* Any organization can innovate, and any person can be an innovator.

* People (even your customers and your boss) decide with their hearts and justify with their heads.

* Ideas are a dime a dozen. Decisions are priceless. Action is perfection.

To me, this list tells me much of what I need to know about Robyn and her innovation approach.

The lesson here for Rebel Intrapreneurs (and me personally) is this: written core beliefs clarify what we think about a topic and how we approach it. All of us should write down our core beliefs.

More about Robyn Bolton:

Robyn’s 5 Core Beliefs

Her company, MileZero

Robyn’s Innovation Assessment

The Adobe Kickbox story blog

On Linkedin

On X

Today’s episode is brought to you by Figma. Two important tools of the Rebel Intrapreneur are the business model canvas and the value proposition canvas. Figma has templates for both, so you can design your innovation projects fast. I used the value proposition canvas template to design the listener profile and value map for this show. Try Figma for free.

More about Bill:

Bill Cushard on Linkedin

Bill Cushard on Twitter

Rebel Intrapreneur podcast website

Bill’s book: The Art of Agile Marketing: A Practical Roadmap for Implementing Kanban and Scrum in Jira and Confluence

Get the show on:

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

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