Everyone is pushing you to lean in, raise your hand and speak up, all of that is great but at a point you have to choose you. You have to sit back, look at your schedule of projects inside the company and outside the company, check your networking schedule (you should have a networking schedule), check your career goals and decide if it's better for you to sit this one out. Sometimes the best thing you can do for your career and sit silent. If you raise your hand too often an

Loyalty, in 2017, is to self in all areas of a person's life; work, relationship and community. In the work world, there is no longer the employee who is striving for a pension or even the gold watch at 20 years. Most people in the work world will work at the minimum of 5 companies by the time they decide to stop working. This isn't the worst trend in the world. It shows that people are taking control of their careers. No longer will they toil and wait for the manager to prom

I know it sounds a bit off, but yes slow down. I don't mean stop going forward, stop working on yourself, stop networking or stop yourself from reaching forward; no that is not what I mean. I mean slow down and reassess your goal. As you well know, you have to be open to opportunities that may present themselves when you least expect them. Even in that, sometimes you're not as flexible in your goal. The goal should definitely be to reach the top, that part should be written i