5 Key Decisions To Shape Your Career

1. start

The first decision point often occurs in the early days of a leader's career, but not necessarily.

At this point, you have to decide to master the skills you need.

Generally speaking, we must face this decision when we start our career.

For example, "what do I really want to do best?" may not be your first or second job, but young people should begin to reflect on this decision.

Some people have this starting point later.

They tried 2 or 3 jobs, but none of them felt passionate.

Or maybe you are an accountant, but you are more than 30 years old, and you don't want to be an accountant for more than 30 years.

This is your starting point, knowing yourself, next time, making a more deliberate decision, this will become a starting point for you.

When you decide to embrace a major opportunity or understand a major problem, this is the turning point.

Not only to see this opportunity, but also to really identify it.

Why is commitment so important at this moment? Because, inevitably, you will encounter obstacles, especially for an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurship is a more arduous challenge, with many obstacles and little resources.

You will feel more frustration.

So it's important to make an emotional commitment and invest in it.

Setbacks come, don't give up, do anything you can to overcome.

If you really commit yourself, others will see this commitment in you.

People will respect this expression.

If your energy comes out of this way, it's a commitment to do something important for you.

This will be very attractive.

People will notice that they want to be with this energy and power.

This builds your leadership in your field and builds a platform.

The tipping point generally occurs when you encounter basic obstacles and decide to take a major risk to break through.

This obstacle may be internal, for example, you have never done this before, and you have to finish it.

It may be an environmental obstacle, such as a major competitive threat to your business, so you will have to do something daring or go in a completely new direction in the future.

You will say, "well, I will go through it, break through this obstacle, and my leadership will come to a new level."

Peter once saw a business owner whose tipping point was during the economic downturn.

He hired them by establishing his management team, when good executives needed jobs.

Such a move is a huge risk of huge returns: once the economy recovers, his business doubles.

20-25 years in one field, everyone faces such a decision.

You have made some achievements and have been successful.

Things have been going smoothly for a long time, but you can't bring the same passion to your past work.

When you are committed to the same company or work again, it is really based on a more meaningful goal.

You have already been successful in business, and you want to create your legend.

This is to make your goal bigger.

Once again, this is committed to the energy and driving force of decision makers, moving forward.

But Peter also said that sometimes, reinvesting means changing.

You think you've done everything you want to do here, and now you want to do something else.

You are more than 50 years old, and it is the age that you are putting in again, and the opportunity is fleeting.

5. let go.

Letting go is a strategic business decision, especially for the founders of an enterprise.

If you arrive at the point where you are committed again, do you feel you want to move on, or commit yourself to the same company, and spend more time in your role, even if the best leaders need to change from their roles? Sooner or later, they will come.

How you make this decision well and deal with change depends on the successor plan.

It may take 5 years to choose, coach and train the person who will take over your role. When he is prepared to have no one to lead, you have to step aside.

Many founders will think that this is my child, and it depends entirely on me.

In fact, to become an indispensable part is to shoulder the responsibility of choosing the next leader and prepare the leader to succeed.

In fact, people's career is very long, but for enterprises, it should be very short.

No one wants enterprises to die away as they fade out.

If you want to make your career successful and leave a legacy to others, you should make wise choices at these critical points.