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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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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hmm weirdly I find focusing on the outcome allows me to avoid being attached to titles. Like - if I want to learn about a new industry, make a decent salary, want different work practices, its ok that I'm not Group PM or Head of Product. Its fine to be PM at a space company eg.
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Focusing on outcomes is not the same as being attached to them. I’m basically alluding to nishkam karma without citing it (since it confuses people unfamiliar with the Gita)
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do you have a favorite development model that incorporates branching divergence or something like it?
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