QUOTATION 11
THEODORE LEVITT ON MAKING YOUR CAREER YOUR BUSINESS
Use this to remind you that you should see your career as you would a business and act accordingly.
Theodore Levitt (1925–2006) was Professor of Economics at The Harvard Business School and played a key role in popularising the term ‘globalisation’. He suggested that:
Your career is literally your business.
Theodore Levitt
It would appear that some managers have taken his advice too literally and now spend more time enhancing and maintaining their resumé than in doing what’s best for the organisation.
In The Little Book of Big Management Questions, I suggested that there are three types of employees:
- The Workers are not concerned with promotion and advancement. Their true ...
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