Are you looking for your first job, want a better job in a new company or more from the one you have now? The world of work and careers has changed and will continue to change over the coming years. Fortune had a good article awhile ago that is still relevant now – a unique way of looking at your career plan and growth. It’s by Erika Fry and looks at “wherever you are on the corporate ladder, whatever you do for a living, if you want to jumpstart your career (or just keep up) you’ve got to think like you’re launching a business from the ground up”. Just like, perhaps, an entrepreneur might do in Silicon Valley. She quotes LinkedIn co-founders Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha in their book The Start-up of You, “all humans are entrepreneurs”. She says that “to accelerate your career in today’s economy, you’ve got to embrace that spirit and apply the Silicon Valley formula – adapt to the future and invest in yourself- no matter how comfortable in your job you might be.” Especially because being comfortable could change tomorrow.

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The Lean In Org has just recently released it’s 2019 Women in the Workplace report and some of the results are surprising. It seems that women have a new obstacle to hamper their upward mobility. We have heard for decades about the ‘glass ceiling’ that women face when trying to climb to upper levels of management. Progress has been made with women in senior leadership levels in recent years, though women, especially women of color, are still underrepresented at every leadership level in an organization. However, surprisingly, research has found that the biggest obstacle for women’s progression is not the glass ceiling but the first step up to manager, called the “broken rung.” This broken rung results in more women getting stuck at the entry level and fewer women becoming managers, therefore reducing the pool to draw on for future promotions. As a result, there are significantly fewer women to advance to higher levels and they will never catch up. And women of color are even more likely to be held back by this scenario. Read more

The future of work, and how leaders navigate our world as things change exponentially around us, is a hot topic.  The work world is only going to get more intense so it’s important to think about what the leader of the future is going to look like before that future is already upon us. Which it almost is.

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