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Your Boss Doesn’t Give a Damn About Your Career Growth
Seven harsh truths to take back control of your career and start getting great opportunities
A boss can rob you of your most precious resource.
Let me explain.
Bosses don’t work for you. Leaders do though. But, unfortunately, many of us work for a boss, not a leader.
A boss cares mostly about the numbers, and getting their next promotion. Oh … and a big, fat, juicy bonus.
The biggest mistake I saw in my corporate career was good employees waiting for their boss to elevate them in their careers. So what happened?
They wasted years of their life — their most precious resource.
One guy I worked with waited for his boss to move on for 5 years. They promised him he was the likely replacement.
It was supposedly a done deal.
Then in that 5th year upper management changed. His boss got fired and the new leaders recruited one of their own. There was a changing of the guard.
My colleague didn’t get chosen.
He’d never get chosen at that company. What he did wrong was rely on his boss. Why don’t bosses care about our career growth?
