Status Updates From Your Career Game: How Game ...

"It is important to think of your career as a stream of learning experiences where you have to move around to gain valuable skills. As such, going in to each experience, it will be key to know what your expectation is from a time perspective, what your expectation is from a goal perspective, and how you will get out of the role when the time is right." -- Keith Wyche

“The advice I give to early-career people is to think about their resumes as more than a history of places visited. For each point on their journey, they should be able to point to something that is truly different today because they were part of it — something that, if they weren’t there, wouldn’t have happened in that way.” — Marius Kloppers

“As you think about how you might assemble the board of directors of your career, we encourage you to keep in mind lessons from Granovetter’s work on weak ties; a board composed of members with overlapping strong ties will likely not be as valuable to you as one whose members have many distinct and unmatched connections to you, otherwise referred to as weak ties.”

“We suggest that the key to developing ability as a career game player is career agility. Career-agile individuals have high emotional intelligence, are politically savvy, are comfortable with uncertainty and risk, and thus demonstrate high degrees of successful portability from position to position over time.”