Your Sorting Hat: On earning freedom, leaning into the future and going wrong daily
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Sep 07, 2021)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Work with people who want to see you succeed.
Teams that disregard your goals are rarely worth your time."
II.
"Own your outcomes to earn the freedom to choose how you will get the work done.
Focus on delivering despite distractions to get to be reliable and trusted."
III.
"Your job, role and task is practice for the next one.
Even if it is dull or tough, you are building for the next level daily. "
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, offers his strategy to continuously succeed over two decades of change -
“What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.”
Source:
Book: The Power of Mandate by Scott Stawski
II.
Barack Obama, former US President, on the gap between work and recognition even as a President:
"Sometimes your most important work involved the stuff nobody noticed."
Source:
Book: A Promised Land by Barack Obama
1 Question
Where did you go wrong today?
If you didn't go wrong, you did not learn today. Take more risks. Fail more to grow.
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times