A client once told me that nobody at her company would ever go back and look at what she had actually done. She said it the way you would say it is going to rain. She was right, and most career advice is built on pretending she is not.
The story you have been told is that good work gets noticed, that if you deliver consistently at a high level the system eventually catches up to you. It is not a matter of time. It is a matter of whether there is a record, and whether that record is somewhere the people who decide will actually encounter it.
I spent 25 years in senior leadership at Adobe, Slack, and Salesforce, sitting in the rooms where nine names get worked through in 40 minutes. The people who got moved were not the loudest ones. They were the ones somebody in the room could describe in a sentence.
In this episode:
Why the people who decide are working from an impression rather than a record, and why that impression is often two years old.
The annual review loop where you are told you work above your level and that you need more experience, from the same person in the same meeting.
Why the ticket list is designed never to run out, and why the more capable you are the longer it gets.
Why the record of your work is yours to keep, and what happens if you do not keep it.
Next week: why being excellent at the work is often the exact thing that keeps you in it.
Everything starts in the same place. Go to lauriejwetzel.com/start
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