
Great organisations are defined by what they say no to. The same is true for great individual careers. A great career is one where the individual made the type of contribution he or she believed was the optimal use of his or her talents, passions, and values and generated the types of desired outcomes that he or she wanted. In other words, the person generated both the desired input and output. Manifesting such a career requires saying yes to a few key opportunities and saying no to a huge number of good, and possibly great, opportunities. What are your thoughts on the matter?