Do you have what it takes to go from waitressing at a Hooters to running a multi-million dollar company like Kat Cole?
Cole, the former president of Focus Company, the parent company of Cinnabon and today’s president and COO of the direct-to-consumer nutrition company Athletic Greens, is willing to hustle and do whatever it takes to learn the job. Her advice is to keep your ego in check when you’re getting feedback on the job.
As she told Business Insider, “A piece of career advice I received when I was incredibly young was that anytime you get criticized, take a moment and assume the criticism is accurate. Assume the person criticizing you is right, just for a moment.”
Cole’s reasoning for assuming the other party’s accurateness has everything to do with keeping your own power. She explained that if you assume they’re correct, you get to consider the criticism with deliberateness like you would any other feedback.
A Favorite Kat Cole Quote:
“When we get our sense of self from only one place, when something goes wrong and the inevitable happens, it can crush you emotionally, spiritually and physically. So it’s important not to believe you are defined by one place, one relationship or one thing, and to find ways to keep your sense of self strong.”
