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| On Entrepreneurial Career Strategy | |
| The conditions in which entrepreneurs start and grow companies are the conditions we all now face when fashioning a career. startupofyou.com |  |
| The success of all professionals depends on employers and clients and partners choosing to buy your time. startupofyou.com | |
| Winning careers, like winning start-ups, are in permanent beta: always a work in progress. startupofyou.com | |
| On ABZ Career Planning | |
| You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges. startupofyou.com | |
| Prioritize plans with the best chance at learning about yourself and the world: more fulfilling career in the long run. startupofyou.com | |
| It’s unwise, no matter your stage of life, to try to pinpoint a single dream around which your existence revolves. startupofyou.com | |
| A good plan A minimizes the cost of failure. Don’t bet the farm. Iterate bit by bit, learn experience by experience. startupofyou.com | |
| Lofty questions about identity and moral purpose take time to work out, and the answers frequently change. startupofyou.com | |
| On Finding Your Competitive Advantage | |
| A career move that makes you feel in over your head stretches you in new dimensions and usually contains more upside. startupofyou.com | |
| Instead of listing impressive-sounding experiences on your resume, show what you’re able to do BECAUSE of your experiences. startupofyou.com | |
| Start a personal blog and begin developing a public reputation and portfolio of work that’s not tied to your employer. startupofyou.com | |
| Building a competitive advantage involves triangulating assets, aspirations and market realities at every career juncture. startupofyou.com | |
| On Relationships | |
| Small, informal networks are efficient at circulating ideas. To increase your opportunity flow, join as many as possible. startupofyou.com | |
| A good way to help people is to introduce them to people and experiences they wouldn’t otherwise be able to access. startupofyou.com | |
| We need network intelligence in good times and bad. We should constantly tap our networks for information. startupofyou.com | |
| On Opportunities | |
| The one disposition and mind-set that must be “on” like electricity to power all opportunity-seeking behaviors: curiosity. startupofyou.com | |
| “The best way to ensure that lucky things happen is to make sure a lot of things happen.” -Bo Peabody startupofyou.com | |
| Opportunities are like the snap to the quarterback. You still have to move down the field, you still have to execute. startupofyou.com | |
| Entrepreneurs don’t start business anywhere, they channel the mindset and skills into finding great business opportunities. startupofyou.com | |
| On Risk | |
| The paradox of high short-term risk leading to low long-term risk holds true for careers as well. startupofyou.com | |
| Rather than avoiding risk, if you can take intelligent risks, it will give you a competitive edge. startupofyou.com | |
| What sets great entrepreneurs apart is not a high tolerance for risk but their ability to judiciously assess and manage it. startupofyou.com | |
