Your Career Is a Startup: Building Sustainable Growth, One Stage at a Time
The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
Reid Hoffman • 2 highlights
amazon.com
Product Mistakes that Apply to Careers: focusing on acquisition instead of retention (focusing on networking instead of relationships & reputation). Or working in a space that doesn’t get more valuable over time (e.g working in a dying industry), or building another “me-too” product without differentiation (not taking enough career risk). Choos... See more
Substack • See your Career as a Product
- The first rule of career planning: Do not plan your career.- The world is an incredibly complex place and everything is changing all the time. You can’t plan your career because you have no idea what’s going to happen in the future. You have no idea what industries you’ll enter, what companies you’ll work for, what roles you’ll have, where you’ll... See more
Marc Andreessen • Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Opportunity
Things I wish I had known earlier in my career:
1) Viewing the world with a strategic lens (aka knowing why I am doing what I am doing in the bigger picture) - some questions to ask yourself to get that understanding: a) What does my business sell? b) Why do people buy this product/service category? c) Why do they specifically buy my business’ pr
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