Your Sorting Hat: On changing identities, blowing things up and using top skills
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Aug 20, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Think hard while changing careers. A career is more than income, it is an identity.
To succeed in your new career, you have to throw away all that you were and did."
II.
"Who makes the decisions? Who bears the consequences?
When these roles align, accountability and smarter decisions will follow."
III.
"Don’t ask your team to do what you’re not willing or able to do yourself.
Lead by example to get the best outcomes consistently. "
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Walter Isaacson, on facing problems, in his biography of Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX - Elon Musk -
"Musk took an iterative approach to design. Rockets and engines would be quickly prototyped, tested, blown up, revised, and tried again, until finally something worked. Move fast, blow things up, repeat. “It’s not how well you avoid problems,” Mueller says. “It’s how fast you figure out what the problem is and fix it."
Source: Book: Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson
II.
Brad Stone, in his biography of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon - Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon -
"When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. —Jeff Bezos, commencement speech at Princeton University, May 30, 2010"
Source: Book: Everything Store - Brad Stone
1 Question
What are your top 3 skills at work? Can you ensure that you use at least one of them every day?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times