The tyranny of job titles: from vanity growth to personal growth
Since the beginning of time, the answer to “What do you do?” could be answered with one word.
Finance. Sales. Education.
But today, most jobs exist in liminal spaces: Kind of like this but also not quite that.
It may have been fair to think that any explanation longer than a one-word, universally understood, job title was just an attempt to l
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If you’re taking a short-term look at career growth, then optimizing for your current organization’s pathologies in evaluating impact is the optimal path: go forth and preen gloriously. However, if you’re thinking about developing yourself to succeed as your current role grows in complexity or across multiple organizations, then it’s far more impor... See more
Will Larson • Work on what matters.
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Job titles can mess you up. Job titles, if they’re taken too seriously, will make you feel like you need to work in a way that befits the title, not the way that fits the actual work.
Austin Kleon • Keep Going
The practice comes with a wonderful side benefit: without a job title, it becomes that much harder to merge our identity, who we think we are, with the position we hold.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
today, most jobs exist in liminal spaces: Kind of like this but also not quite that.
It may have been fair to think that any explanation longer than a one-word, universally understood, job title was just an attempt to look more professional than you really were.
Today, the most interesting people I know are not only existing in difficult-to-define s... See more
It may have been fair to think that any explanation longer than a one-word, universally understood, job title was just an attempt to look more professional than you really were.
Today, the most interesting people I know are not only existing in difficult-to-define s... See more
Alex Tan • #059 Environment Design
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Stuart Evans and added
For most of us, what we do with our lives isn’t cosmically significant. But if you can delude yourself a little bit that your Important Projects are going to Change the World, this will probably make you better at what you do, and ultimately help you collect more grubby resources and status and so on.
dynomight • Effectiveness beats accuracy
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The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
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