Arrive Forty-Five Minutes Early andLeave Fifteen Minutes LateIf you are going to be first in your corporation,start practicing by being first on the job. Peoplewho arrive at work late don’t like their jobs...atleast that’s what senior management thinks. Peopledon’t arrive twelve minutes late for the movies. And being early always gives you a psychological edge over the others in your company. Don't stay atthe office until ten o'clock every night. You aresending a signal that you can't keep up or that yourpersonal_ life is poor. Leave fifteen minutes lateinstead. In those fifteen minutes organize your nextday and clean your desk. You will be leaving after95 percent of the employees anyway, so yourreputation as a hard worker stays intact.There are too many times in your career whencircumstances such as airline schedules and salesmeetings and year-end closings and such will keepyou away from home until late. Give more time toyour family.Plus forty-five minutes early and fifteenminutes late is an hour a day. That's two hundredfifty hours a year or 31 days. You can get aheadquickly working one extra month a year.