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Career Optionality Trumps Job Security

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Jacob Warwick
Mar 13, 2025
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Most executives will spend $250,000 on an MBA without hesitation. Yet these same leaders invest almost nothing in their careers—where they'll earn millions—until they hit a crisis.

This disconnect isn't just financially questionable. It's professionally dangerous.

Would you bet your company on just one product? Put all your investments in a single stock? Rely on only one sales lead?

Of course not. Yet that's exactly how most people treat their most valuable asset—their career.

The Hidden Risk of Career Complacency

You've heard it before: "Keep your head down, work hard, and opportunities will come." Comforting advice—and completely false in today's executive world.

The hard truth? Career development isn't something you do when updating your resume. It's a daily discipline that shapes your future long before you see its effects.

What you do (or don't do) today determines what's possible tomorrow.

You're skilled at building sales pipelines and creating backup plans for your business. Yet you've…

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