Refine or break

There are two ways to create value in your career.

Refine a system or break a system. 

At the start of your career, your value comes from learning a system and improving it. 

You follow a process, get good at it and get promoted to make others keep doing it. 

Everyone starts here.

But over time, some people shift.

They stop being valued for fitting into a system and start being valued for breaking it. 

Sometimes, that shift builds on the first method. 

You may need to understand a system so deeply that you know exactly how to improve it.

Other times, what’s needed isn’t a better version of the old but an entirely new system altogether. 

You can enjoy a very long career by fitting into a system and making gradual improvements. 

But if you’re the type of person that wants to go beyond this, then you must keep asking yourself this question:

How am I learning to break things effectively?


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