Daniel Pink, in his book Free Agent Nation, noted that America's career landscape was changing and would soon be dominated by freelancers or portfolio careerists. Bill Bridges' book Jobshift argued along similar lines, Marci Alboher's One Person/Multiple Careers highlighted this growing trend among normal people in the United States and more
... See moreWaqas Ahmed • The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility
YOUR CAREER IS OVER A career is ‘old technology’. It was a great way to structure work for many years. It was an efficient way to get a return on the investment of training and developing staff. That world is over. Today the world expects you to be trained, it expects you to educate yourself constantly and to bring something new to the table. For
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we can explore and exploit in parallel: become a jack of all trades, and a master of one. Or we can do it serially: lots of successful careers look like an initial period of exploration, followed by going deep on one thing for several years, then an exploration phase in an adjacent field, and so on. There is still a trade-off between these states,
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