I spent the last 13 years building a career at T-Mobile.

It changed my life, and tomorrow is my last day.

Here are 11 rules I learned to get you promoted and help you win at life:

Move With the Movers

Pay attention to the people getting new opportunities and advancing their careers.

Don't look at them as competition. Make them your friends.

Instead of asking for favors, find ways to support them and celebrate their successes.

Be an Excellent Teammate

Great leaders start as great teammates.

Look for ways to enrich the people on your team. Be the person who is always ready to help others get better.

You never know who is watching or the impact you will make on another person.

Find a Bad Ass Mentor

You need people on your side who will advocate for you when important decisions are being made.

Do not wait for people to pick you out of the crowd. This doesn't work.

Find opportunities to share your success and ask for feedback to help you grow.

Master Emotional Intelligence

The more responsibility you have, the more stressful your job can become.

Find productive ways to manage your stress so you can be at your best for your team.

You will never get a new job or client if you look overwhelmed with your current work.

17 Books to help you Lead through change:

1) Switch by Chip Heath

What You Will Learn:

- The Difference Between The Rational and Emotional Mind
- The Pattern You Can Follow to Create

2) It Starts with One

What You Will Learn:

- Why So Many Change Initiatives Fail
- Why You Must Change Before Your Organization

3) HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change

What You Will Learn:

- Establish a sense of urgency
- Lead change through eight critical stages
- How to Gain Commitment and Minimize

4) Leading Change by John Kotter

What You Will Learn:

- An Eight Step Process for Managing Change
- Why Top Performers Get Off

If you haven't read these 21 books, you shouldn't be leading anyone:

1) Multipliers by @LizWiseman

What you'll learn:

- How you might be accidentally holding your team back
- What you can do (Action items!) to help everyone on your team be at their

2) Radical Candor by @kimballscott

What you'll learn:

- How to give feedback that creates change
- How to build better relationships in the

3) The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by @patricklencioni

What you'll learn:

- Why team culture starts with Trust
- How you can build a team invested in the results of the

4) Lead With a Story

What you'll learn:

- How to tell a story that inspires your team and help influence
- How to engage an audience, regardless of the

13 concepts to understand before you lead a team:

Everything starts with trust

Your team needs to know you are competent and have integrity.

The easiest way to show them you have both is by doing what you say you will do.

- Write down your commitments
- Proactively manage expectations

Conflict is a Constant

Hoping conflict will go away by ignoring it is like hoping weeds in your garden will go away when you ignore them.

Your goal is not to hope conflict disappears because it won't. Your goal is to get better at managing it.

Seeds Depend on Soil

You can create healthy soil in your organization by listening deeply to people at all levels.

Understanding their goals and obstacles will ensure you can provide the support they need.

Creating healthy soil will allow ideas to flourish.

Clarity is Speed

Be ruthless about making sure all levels of your organization understand their priorities and Why their work matters.

Great leaders keep the vision visible.