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Read MoreForté SignalsNice Hat. Hope It Doesn’t Become a Tattoo.
My colleague Katie Stanfield recently wrote about a well-known decision-making framework that asks you to categorize a decision before you make it: Is it a hat, a haircut or a tattoo? A hat is easy to reverse. Don’t like it? Take it off. A haircut takes longer to undo, but eventually it grows out. A […]
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Read MoreForté SignalsThe Hidden Rules of Work Might Not Be Rules After All
You figure out pretty early in your career that work has a whole set of rules nobody actually explains to you. Nobody tells you exactly how much you can push back before you’re labeled “difficult.” Or when you’re being asked for an honest opinion as in what do you really think? versus an “honest” opinion […]
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Read MoreForté SignalsReviews of Someone Else’s Future
There should be a Yelp for career decisions. There isn’t. Five stars: Took the promotion. Would absolutely do again. Four stars: Changed industries. Rocky start, solid outcome. One star: “Follow your passion.” Passion did not cover rent. No such site exists, so we piece one together ourselves. Rankings. Reddit threads. LinkedIn posts. Salary reports. Alumni […]
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Read MoreForté SignalsFeedback, Part II: Why Not Me?
Raise your hand if you’ve ever found yourself at work wondering: Why not me? Maybe it was during a promotion cycle and someone else got the role you thought you were in line for. Maybe it was when you were certain you’d be sent to lead the project abroad, only to watch the opportunity go […]
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Read MoreForté SignalsWork Is Weirdly Unscored
Even at this point in my career, I often find myself wishing there were a dashboard for my career. Not a performance review. Not a five-point rating scale. An actual dashboard. Like the Canvas portal my daughter checked daily during undergrad. SUBJECT GRADE Respect from colleagues 87 Chances of receiving a meaningful raise this year […]
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Read MoreForté SignalsThe Myth Of The Career Ladder
A colleague of mine said something the other day that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. We were talking about career ladders, the metaphor, the model, the whole idea, and she paused and said: Why did we all assume the ladder went up? I mean, what are ladders for, other than to get […]
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