Fine Is Not a Decision

Fine is not a decision.

Most people stay in a job the way they keep a gym membership. The year renews, then renews again, and one day it has been 6 years and nobody can remember choosing any of them.

The leaders who get blindsided, by a reorg, a layoff, a boss who leaves, are almost never the ones who were looking. They are the ones who stopped looking because things were fine. And when the ground moves, their resume is 5 years old and they have not talked to anyone outside the building in years.

Once a year, check the market and the mirror. Update the resume. Take the recruiter call. Run one real process somewhere you might actually go.

Most years, you will walk back into the same job on Monday. But it will be a different job,

because this time you chose it.

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