What you'll learn:
Stop running faster, start moving smarter.
Laurent Sylvestre has spent 20-plus years in leadership – Chief People and Culture Officer at Beca, coaching CEOs and executive teams. A big believer that our careers should work for us, he decided to step away from the corporate world to build a career on his own terms:
💡 You are running [First Name] [Last Name] Limited. Most of us think like employees of our company. Laurent’s reframe: You’re the founder of your own business (you!), and your current employer is simply where your time is invested right now. This shifts how you think about your development and what opportunities you actually want. Your career is your business, so run it like one.
💡 Are you driving your ambition, or is it driving you? When ambition drives you, you’re always chasing something in the future – the goal’s always ahead. When you drive it, you get clearer on what success means now – so that you can celebrate alongside it rather than when you reach someone else’s version of success.
💡 Optimum speed beats maximum speed. Optimum speed lets you go the furthest sustainably (without burning you out). Back-to-back meetings all day is maximum speed, and at maximum speed, someone else is making choices for you. Take back your calendar to take back control.
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