You know the career advancement playbook. You, too, have been denied. Sat in the annual HR performance review and were told that it wasn’t your time yet. Because you needed a little more operational experience. Need one more international rotation first. Needed, needed, needed.
Didn’t check ALL the boxes.
Needs more experience.
Hunger Is worth more than experience, says David Cote, former CEO of Honeywell, in an interview in the Harvard Business Review (HBR, January/February 2021). David Cote, considered by many one of the most successful corporate CEOs of his generation, is the author of a recent book “Winning Now, Winning Later.” And he is unequivocal about the experience part.
