Larry Jacobson 1 min read Career Growth

Are You Seeking Promotion — or Seeking Growth?

Pursuing promotion at any cost leaves you vulnerable to blind spots and self-imposed career ceilings. Pursuing growth leads to greater self-understanding, more career fulfillment, and an ever-expanding comfort zone — and the promotions will follow.

Pursuing promotion at any cost leaves you vulnerable to blind spots and self-imposed career ceilings. Pursuing growth leads to greater self-understanding, more career fulfillment, and an ever-expanding comfort zone — and the promotions will follow.

Are you seeking promotion — or are you seeking personal and professional growth?

I put this to you: pursuing the former at any cost will leave you vulnerable to blind spots and self-imposed career ceilings.

Pursuing the latter will lead to greater self-understanding, more career fulfillment, and an ever-expanding comfort zone. And naturally — perhaps aided with a little manager nudging — promotions will follow.

This post was originally a thousand words long, so I decided to make a picture instead.

Together, let’s make sure we jump from the red line to the green.

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