“I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.”
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Climbing to the top of management positions requires not less than:
Talent, planning, willingness and fortune.
* It does not make sense to strive for mastery in too many fields. We suggest to focus on a few relevant and key issues to be proficient in.
* What counts more than skills and knowledge is your values and attitudes. These factors, while quite personal and individual, may also be planned and designed.
* The desire for career advancement demands for strong motivation and ongoing adjustment of priorities, which also can be trained and developed.
* You may give your luck a bit of a boost: Cultivate your network, be attentive to your business partners, be open for new ideas, be proactive.
* Consider: What looks like a piece of luck today, may turn out to be quite disadvantageous in the long term. Guidance from an outside view may help to identify and analyze pros and cons.
We give guidance for each of these four topics by means of our external point of view.