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A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions

Harvard Business Review

It’s easy to be confused about how to grow in your career. Since the 70-20-10 ratio says that experiences best accelerate your development, you’ll want to understand which experiences will build your career and, more importantly, the few, most powerful experiences that can close your from/to gap. Build your map.

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Build Your Team Like an Executive

Harvard Business Review

For example, Tim Sheahan, Chief Financial Officer for a large division of a multi-national corporation, aspires to become CFO of a Fortune 100 company in the future. This story had a happy ending since Tom took stock of his career, shifted to a new job in financial management, and has been extremely successful.