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Design Your Career
Here are the chapter summaries of the book, Design Your Career, published by Penguin in 2024.
These videos offer useful tips and tools on how to lead your life and career.
“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
- Lao Tzu
Chapter-1:
Life is long, pace it well.
Know your prime movers
The ITC model
How to hone a thick skin
Chapter-2:
Deserve before you Desire
Being relevant in the age of technology
A case for bounded empathy
How to hone lifelong creativity
Chapter-3:
Own your career, or somebody else will
Career as a portfolio of enterprise
Where does courage come from?
To achieve financial freedom
Chapter-4:
Focus on High-Leverage activities
Zone of Concern vs Zone of Freedom
Rules of delegation
How to identify and solve important problems
Chapter-5:
Think Strategically, Act Decisively
How to always think big picture
Think future back and outside-in
Critical trade-offs in life and career
Chapter-6:
Leadership is a Choice, not everyone can make
Leaders have a soul in the game
Offer your team aircover
The power of asymmetric incentives
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