📋Career Playbook: Strategic Plays To Help You Crush It At Work

The Super Bowl was last weekend, and it was an exciting game right up to the end. That is often not the case. If you watch a lot of American football, you’ve likely seen games end with the quarterback taking a knee for a few plays, running out the clock to end the game. It’s not the most dramatic and exciting way to finish a game, but it is a winning strategy employed by the top teams.

I think you might adopt a similar strategy to bringing about career changes, too. Allow me to explain…

In the world of football, the strategy of running down the clock by taking a knee might seem anti-climatic. Yet, this is a deliberate, intentional act that comes from discipline, foresight, execution, and culminating in a game well played.

In the realm of career development, the path to long-term success is often misconceived as a series of dramatic shifts and bold leaps. This is almost always the opposite of how you build long-term career success.

The essence of achieving and maintaining career success lies in the grind of producing great work, learning and developing yourself, positioning yourself strategically, and of having the grace and wisdom to know when the timing is right to ‘take a knee’, allowing the clock to wind down on one game so you can move mark the victory and…