It was striking to me that the vast majority of people were professionally happy in their current position. They knew themselves very well and had used this knowledge to accept a job that aligned their talents with the needs of their employer.
These are exactly the kind of people that you want to lead organizations in the future. I believe that leaders who are happy and successful in their current jobs have the traits to create that synergy again in their next position.
As you consider where you are and where you are going on your professional journey, I hope that you focus first on creating the alignment where you are now. If you made a bad employment decision or are not happy in your current job, you need to understand what went wrong or it will follow you to the next move and beyond. Try as best as you can to create happiness where you are now, and then, when the time is right, you will have the skills to replicate that calibration in whatever is next.
Strive to feel as Jill Ker Conway did (see yesterday's blog):
"Nothing was pushing me out of this wonderful setting except a cause, and the hope to serve it."*
-- beth triplett
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*Jill Ker Conway, True North, 1995, p. 250.
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