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Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career. Coming February 14th. Thoughts from Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha and the Start-Up of You team.
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225 Posts by startupofyou
Entrepreneurship begins with frustrated wonderment. For you in your career, curiosity will make you alert to professional opportunities.
Entrepreneurs navigate the day-to-day issues of running a company by gathering intelligence. You have similar intelligence needs.
“The reason I don’t have a plan is because if I have a plan I’m limited to today’s options.” - @sherylsandberg
Aspirations and values are keys of your career competitive advantage because you are able to do work that you care about longer and better.
The Start-Up of You
thestartupofyou.com/2012/05/chris-saccas-story-of-hustle-and-resourcefulness/
How Silicon Valley investor Chris Sacca (@sacca) hustled early in his career to land a great job: http://t.co/luB4IP77
Shared experiences lead to trust, which leads to sharing information and opportunities. Opportunity-rich networks have common denominators.
Network literacy: knowing how to conceptualize, access, and benefit from the information flowing through your social network.
Unfortunately, for far too many, focused learning ends at college graduation. Thereafter they focus on hard assets instead of soft assets.
Building a competitive advantage involves triangulating assets, aspirations and market realities at every career juncture.
Don’t write out an elaborate plan B - things will change too much after the ink dries.
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