Zigzag Approach

The scrambling, or zigzag, route to the top involves an entirely different approach to career planning, as you can see from the following illustration.

Just as there are advantages and disadvantages to the PFW approach to the top, there also are pros and cons to a zigzag approach.

One of the advantages of the zigzag or scrambling approach may be for a person to be promoted quickly. That is, for those who are willing to move about geographically and who are sufficiently aggressive to make the effort to seek out profitable transfers, the route to the top can be faster. Sometimes an individual can achieve a wider and more valuable ...

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