The Proactive Executive

I also observed the missteps taken by many bright, well-educated and energetic executives. For the most part, these missteps were avoidable—the result of poor decisions, improper career planning and insufficient career management. Lack of effective career management almost always has a detrimental impact on an executive’s career advancement, job satisfaction, and earnings potential. Yet, so often, promising professionals don’t have the career guidance or broader real-world perspective that are so beneficial. That is why, after retiring from Spencer Stuart in 2015, I set about writing a practical, actions-based reference book to help aspiring and C-suite executives optimize their career management. This discipline has not, for the most part, been taught by our education system at any level. Instead, we painfully learn these lessons through the schoolof hard knocks.