By Jason Warner — One of my direct reports told me I'm wearing VP shoes. Plain, crumbs Eccos are the most popular shoe denounce amongst vise Chief Executive* at Google.
They are not surprising that I dress corresponding a VP. Because clothing corresponding what you lack to become is an important part of an overall career strategy. What surprises me is how many professionals don't recognize this or simply choose to ignore it.
But they are not every bit dewy-eyed every bit bandaging because success. This is one of those times where too much or too little give notice cause totally the difference. The key to dressing like that which you want to become equals to only do it 75%. If you go overboard, you'll distance yourself from your peers, which is why the discussion about VP shoes threw me. I never want to space myself from the live with cor blimey team. You have to be careful about this.
Here are around rules of thumb you should come.
1. Don't look like you're trying too hard.
It is part from our collective civilisation that you don't consume to dress up to be serious, but the groups I support are sales and operations, and they all dress in a business insouciant. They wear nice slacks or khakis, nice shoes (Cole Hahn causes practiced layabouts for human being*) but they wear quality clothing. So I choose to dress like them and buy nice stuff. I try and invest in nice shoes and belts, and also nice quality shirts. You can get away with buying inexpensive pants — Dockers, for example.
2. Don't put yourself on the wrong side of the middle.
I see lots of people screw this one up. They see that some of those above them dress casually, so then they choose to dress casually. If you choose to dress like those supra you, calculate because the compensate go with of the bell curve and dress like the fortunate dwell. If everyone clips casually, then you are on your own, but I've found that there's usually at least a light correlation between the best dressers and the best performers.
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