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How to avoid potholes in building your career

How to avoid potholes in building your career

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How to avoid potholes in building your career

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- One of the things that a sponsor does is to give you the roadmap of how to stay successful based on their years of experience and knowhow. I want to pause for a moment and share with you a mistake that I made in my career. I'm going to be raw, real, and put my truth on the table, because even though it was a mistake, it became the greatest turning point in my professional journey. When I worked at a Fortune 500 company, I received a call from a journalist. Now, the rule at this particular company was you never talked to the media unless authorized. I wasn't authorized, but I decided to talk to the journalist. The journalist asked me where I saw myself 10 or 15 years into the future and I said, as the president and CEO of the company, and eventually the chairman and CEO of the entire brand. Well, the article came out in a state business magazine. That same day my boss called me into the office and said, "what the hell…

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