November 2025
- Nov 20, 2025Work SkillsBuilding a Strategic Career PathStandard advice says define your values and goals before moving, but her longitudinal work on reinvention found identity clarity follows action rather than preceding it. Newport's career capital argument points the same way, since engagement tends to follow mastery instead of existing beforehand. The page covers choosing a problem space rather than a job title, finding where you are genuinely top quartile, and the calendar test for whether your stated strategy is real.
- Nov 20, 2025Work SkillsCareer Risk ManagementPeople diversify their investments and then concentrate their income, identity, network, and savings in a single employer. The article maps five risks, industry, skill obsolescence, company-specific, role redundancy, and concentration, with Nokia and Blockbuster as worked examples. IBM's Institute for Business Value puts the half-life of technical skills at roughly 2.5 years in fast-moving domains, which makes renewal and a distributed network the real defenses.
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