Impact = Environment x Skills: How to Make Career Decisions

Lets walk through a step-by-step of how to use the framework. We'll go through 5 steps:

• Spell Out Your Variables

• Give Each Variable A Score

• Identify What Matters Most

• Evaluate Your Ability To Change The Variable

• Understand The Time Horizon Of Change

It's Not About A Spreadsheet Of Inputs

The goal of the framework is not to try and boil a decision like this down to a set of spreadsheet inputs that spits out a "right" answer. Instead, the goal of the framework is to:

• Be able to name the individual variables that are inputs into the decision.

• Evaluate each individual variable in a stru

Environment

Your Environment is everything that enables you to do great work that is outside of your direct control. There are a few major sub-variables of Environment:

• Manager - Your manager isn't just someone you report to. It is the person responsible for growing your career and shaping your output. This person should be invested in helping you

6. Mixing Perception & Truth

When I was trying to decide to go from being a Product Lead at Facebook to Head of Growth at Instagram, I received a lot of feedback from really smart people that it was a bad move. At the time, there was an outside perception that the Instagram team didn't care about growth. So those outsiders were giving me feedback b