Careers Only Look Strategic in Reverse
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 Tomorrow, The Work Signal, my new newsletter in partnership with SHRM, launches. 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...
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