281: Nobody Does it Alone

The careers that look like solo achievements rarely are. Find out the three people I think you need.
281: Nobody Does it Alone

We tell ourselves that hard work and talent are enough. If you put the work in, the results will follow. Careers are fundamentally, a solo effort.

It's a comforting story. It's also how some talented people stay stuck without understanding why.

The careers that look like solo achievements rarely are. Behind every person who made it, there are invisible people. A manager who gave responsibility before it was earned. A colleague who advocated. A sponsor who opened a door that wasn't visible from the outside.

We don't talk about this enough. Nobody does it alone.

If you believe success is purely individual, you keep your head down. You wait for good work to get noticed. You mistake the isolation for integrity. The problem isn't effort. It's a misunderstanding of how careers actually work.

There are three specific relationships that drive most of the progress I see in successful professionals. Some people have one of them, few have all three.

The career you're building might be missing something invisible - find out what it is

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