Grow Skills With Work, Not Extracurriculars

skills should be grown via work the business needs. The company supports that work and holds people accountable to doing it. That growth will be directly in-line with what the company needs. And growing via that work will also actually deliver impact in a way that gets you rewards.

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Extracurriculars-as-growth has some major problems:

• The machinery of the company is not set up to hold you accountable to actual delivery of extracurriculars. Nobody ever got a raise because they read a book. Nobody ever got fired because they didn’t read a book. It’s very common to see extracurricular tasks in growth plans only to never be followed

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