flâneur

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith

ribbonfarm.com · 1,351 words · saved by 1 readers

I am not much of a video game fan, but I’ve noticed that skills you learn that enable you to kill the aliens at Level 1 often become liabilities at Level 2. Everyday life in a corporation, unfortunately, is not quite as explicit as your favorite video game in signaling level changes. Wouldn’t it be nice if one fine day, when you boot up in the morning, you get a big message saying, “You are now in Level 2” instead of the Windows welcome screen? Wishful thinking aside, Marshall Goldsmith’s “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” is as good a guide as you could hope for, for navigating Level changes in the career game. The book is interesting whether you are an obsessed careerist who wants to “Get There,” or merely curious about workplace psychology and sociology (I put myself in the latter bucket; being “There” seems like a lot of work, though I don’t mind occasional tourist visits). Goldsmith is an executive coach who specializes in fixing apparently trivial personality failings that,

I am not much of a video game fan, but I've noticed that skills you learn that enable you to kill the aliens at Level 1 often become liabilities at Level 2. Everyday life in a corporation, unfortunately, is not quite as explicit as your favorite video game in signaling level changes. Wouldn't it be nice if one fine day, when you boot up in the morning, you get a big message saying, "You are now in Level 2" instead of the Windows welcome screen? Wishful thinking aside, Marshall Goldsmith's "What Got You Here Won't Get You There" is as good a guide as you could hope for, for navigating Level cha

related reading