In my last post I discussed the three puzzle pieces that comprise your competitive advantage as a professional. More than 2,000 of you commented, shared, and tweeted your responses. Today, I’m going to show how to take the next step — how to incorporate your competitive advantage into a “flexibly persistent” career planning framework. The Old Way of…
A billboard that sat along the 101 Highway in the Bay Area in 2009 put it bluntly: “1,000,000 people overseas can do your job. What makes you so special?” While one million might be an exaggeration, what’s not an exaggeration is that other people can and want to have your dream job. For anything desirable, there’s competition: the arm of an…
Centuries of immigrants have risked everything to come to America with the belief that if they worked hard, they would enjoy a better life than their parents had. Since the country’s birth, each generation of Americans has generally made more money, been better educated, and enjoyed a higher standard of living than the generation that came…