Your title ≠ Your job ≠ Your work ≠ What you do ≠ Who you are
Kegan’s slippery career slope
1. I am my title
2. I am my job, I have a title
3. I am my work, I have a job with a title
4. I am what I do, I have work to do in a job with a title
5. I am, I have doings
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In general I find the Kegan model to be of limited use due to the linearity of progression (I like the greater expressivity of branching divergence) but it’s a good model for careers because they’re also a linear-progress context. Ladders work on pyramids.
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It’s fine for janitors to be their titles. CEOs need to be at the “having doings” level to really get through their toughest problems. The slightest degree of attachment turns into a liability under big-problem stress.
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I’m a bit wary of using Kegan language in this particular corner of twitter because it’s a “Maslow for cool kids” level trope without being fully acknowledged as such. I’m more comfortable using Maslow language because at some level everybody gets that it’s a cartoon.
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You don't have doings until you do 'em.
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That’s donings. Doings can have in-progress states.
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