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STRATEGY
The New Formula for Career Success
Become Essential Rethink Your Value
You’ve got to be crucial to your organization – not someone that’s Never stop learning, improving, and investing in yourself – then
easily replaced. For example: You might be the company’s go-to IT consistently apply these talents in ways that go far beyond your
security expert, a crucial member of its regulatory management job description. For example: If you’re a programmer, take design
team, or a highly sought-after internal thought leader. If others and marketing classes so you can create more user-friendly and
can do what you do, you’re already on the road to irrelevance. engaging products. If you’re a marketer, spend more time with your
Instead, be a lynchpin, or crucial piece in any system – one that’s programmers so you can find new ways to leverage your creative
fundamentally difficult and expensive to replace. ideas through technology. The more versatile you make yourself, the
more adaptable, resourceful and uniquely value-adding you can be.
Change and Evolve Create Your Own Opportunities
Get the capabilities, skills and insights today that will be in-demand Go, see, try and do. Put yourself into situations that place you
tomorrow. Take steps to acquire the talents, contacts and resources outside your comfort zone, like taking on unfamiliar tasks that
you’ll need to succeed in the future, so you can be in a more require you to do new things with new people. Be open-minded,
advantageous position to greet it when it arrives. Know where and soak up as much knowledge and learning as you can – then
you want to go in your career, have a plan for getting there, and apply it vigorously. The more you do so, the more you’ll consistently
voluntarily push yourself to learn, grow and take on more leadership put yourself in opportunity’s path and the greater your chances of
and responsibility – even if this means taking small steps in different finding it will be.
directions until bigger ones become more comfortable.
Never Stop Learning Embrace Difficult Challenges
Constantly look for ways to expand your education and insights Seek out hard tasks that others avoid: It means you’ve got less
– the most resilient leaders are eternal students, and possess competition, and the benefits of accomplishing these tasks will
talent and training that’s applicable to a wide range of professional be more singular and value. Look to apply a variety of skills and
contexts. Think of it this way: The more resources you’ve got in insights while doing so too: The more you exercise different talents
your professional toolkit, and ways you can use them, the more while others exercise the same ones over and over, the more
future-proof you’ll be. versatile you’ll be. Applying focused effort towards accomplishing
larger goals can help you achieve more. And the more you push
your comfort zone, the more you’ll increase your courage and
capabilities.
Go Above and Beyond Take Smart Risks
What personal activities are you pursuing that can teach you The more you do the same things over time, the less value they
marketable skills, or push you closer towards achieving your hold in a rapidly-changing world. Faced with change, you’ve got to
career goals? Going forward, your work, your reputation, and your take risks that can help propel you further towards achieving your
contributions will be your résumé—use off-hours opportunities as a goals. But being risky doesn’t necessarily mean being reckless:
chance to grow and enhance them, and set yourselves apart while Rather, smarter about where you place your bets. Pick a portfolio
others shy away from opportunity. of promising growth activities – start a part-time business, launch
a new product, volunteer to lead an innovative new venture, etc. –
then pursue them, readjusting your strategies as you go based on
the results achieved. Keep taking promising risks that put you in
chance’s sights, and put you in a position to succeed.
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