Hope is not a strategy
“I’ve tried everything, nothing’s worked. I’ve been stuck for 5 years and passed over for every promotion.”
I asked her what happened when she went for a promotion.
“Well, I didn’t exactly go for it, I was hoping they’d just see how hard I was working and know that I wanted it.”
Turns out, she did not try "everything."
She just kept trying the same thing—overworking as she’d always done—which clearly wasn’t working.
Instead of using her voice, she outsourced her communication.
She gave her work a job it couldn’t do: be a spokesperson.
Performance and productivity are not your publicist. Your amazing achievements cannot advocate for you. And hope is not a strategy.
Effort and output, no matter how impressive, are not substitutes for a clearly defined career strategy.
As a truth teller committed to helping women leaders break through their self-limiting beliefs, I'll share the secrets to a powerful pivot: You cannot prove your way to a promotion.
Effort and output, no matter how impressive, are not substitutes for a clearly defined career strategy.
Your job is your job.
What's truly demoralizing is that we too often lose sight of who we are, the leaders of our lives.
Our most prominent leadership role is Self-Leadership. We become what we believe. We demonstrate by what we elevate.
Is your devotion and dedication to you... or a job?
Purposing your talents in the most meaningful way is a result of how you thoughtfully allocate your personal assets — time, energy, resources and mindshare —over the entire 30+ year span of your working life.
You must define your destiny to leave a legacy.
You're worth too much to let life “just happen.”
