Careers Only Look Strategic in Reverse
Ten years ago, I keynoted a SHRM conference in Tennessee. Years later, I drove through the night from New York to Washington, D.C. to interview SHRM CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP
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None of those moments felt like part of some master plan while I was living them.
That’s what I wrote about in this week’s This Week in Culture.
We narrate careers backward, connecting the dots and calling it strategy. But careers are lived forward.
You don’t know which conversation, email, relationship or opportunity will matter years from now.
You just have to keep doing work worth noticing and walk through the openings when they appear.
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