Thinking beyond the next role.
WHAT TO ESTABLISH
What you want the work to look like in several years.
WHY THAT FRAMING
Titles and salaries are downstream of the work itself.
WHAT QUESTIONS HELP
What problems do I want to be solving What size of organisation suits me How much do I want to manage people Where do I want to live How much risk can I carry
WHAT TO RECOGNISE
That the answers change, and that is fine.
WHAT TO REVIEW ANNUALLY
Whether your current path leads where you want.
WHAT TO ASK
Is this year's experience different from last year's.
WHY THAT QUESTION
Repeating one year many times is the commonest career failure.
WHAT COMPOUNDS OVER A DECADE
Depth in a domain Reputation Relationships Financial buffer
WHAT DEPRECIATES
Specific tools Titles from organisations nobody knows
WHAT TO INVEST IN DELIBERATELY
The things that compound.
WHAT TO BUILD FINANCIALLY
Enough buffer to make choices from strength.
WHY THAT AFFECTS CAREER OUTCOMES
Accepting bad roles from necessity is how careers stall.
WHAT TO BE WILLING TO DO
Move when growth stops.
WHAT TO AVOID
Optimising every decision for money alone Planning so rigidly that opportunities are refused
WHAT TO KEEP
Optionality.
