Your Career Is a Startup: Building Sustainable Growth, One Stage at a Time
- How valuable is what I’m doing?
- What makes this hard for others to do?
- Could this get dramatically easier because of what others launch or how the industry evolves?
- If this does get easier, do I have a “Plan B” to create differentiated value?
Note: An early version of this post appeared in my personal blog (still a work in progress). Decided to
Dharmesh Shah • How To Build a Defensible A.I. Startup
Additional research has found that people who outperform in their fields employ strategies that move them past the autonomous stage of learning, like athletes who use speed workouts to improve their performance.5 In other words, to make a break-through performance improvement during the autonomous stage, you need to set an uncomfortable pace for yo
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The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
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successful firms I know, all of the individual partners act as if they have personal strategic plans for their own careers—they have each thought through what their special value on the marketplace will be, what will make them more than just one more practitioner in their specialty, how they plan to achieve this vision of personal career progress.