Creationism beats Evolution for your career

If you've chosen a path that presents you with one new challenge after another, you've chosen to adapt your skills to meet each new challenge.

Now you have a choice between evolution and creation.

The natural way is to learn as you go, take on challenges that exercise your aptitudes, and just muscle through the skills required to fulfill the new assignment. That way, you'll accumulate new proficiencies. Eventually.

If that sounds familiar, I'm here to suggest that you consider taking control of your development. Decide who you want to become (or want to try out as), understand what you'll need to learn to get there, and yes, pick challenges that are within reach, but will force you to improve these "strategic" skills.

I've had a long, happy career in tech that's allowed me to travel the world, work with some of the best businesses, and address some fantastic challenges.

I adopted the "strategic skills" approach as the best way I could find to keep up with the fastest changing industry on the planet. It's helped me a lot, and it just seems natural for me to pass this on to others who find themselves in this situation as I've built and lead teams, coached ambitious tech leaders and CEOs, and spoken to groups large and small.

Now I've set a goal to help 10,000 ambitious technology leaders down this path.

And that's why I wrote the Technology Leaders Handbook. If you're not a tech leader but know someone who is, forward this to them. It's my goal to make them eternally grateful to you for this simple favour.

Choosing your path

Try the simple exercises in the free sample of Technology Leaders Handbook available here to figure out the next stage of your career development.

If you're one of the first 20 to email me with your answers, we can hop on a call to discuss.

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