CONCLUSION: YOUR PERSONAL CAREER REMIX Flashcards
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What do you most wish you had done then, knowing what you know now?”One piece of advice stood out among all the others. It was from a chief marketing officer, who said, “If I could go back to the beginning of my career and give myself one piece of advice, I would tell myself not to be so _____.
afraid
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Applying Remixer Rule #2: Empathize, I have an enormous amount of empathy for how hard change can be at ______ of one’s career.
every stage
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I would also suggest that each person’s personal career path today represents a ______ of the macro changes we have been exploring throughout this book: from one-size-fits-all/need-to-know-basis/up-or-out-career-ladders to a collective desire for more personal development, customization, variety, flexibility, work/life integration, meaning, and purpose.
microcosm
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With so much uncertainty, your only choice as an individual is to continually ______ and adapt.
stay alert
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This does not mean changing everything—remember Remixer Rule #6—but taking the existing, recognizable tunes and rhythm of your career and adding to and _______ from them as necessary.
subtracting
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The Career Path Remixer: Tiffany Dufu
Less than a year after this conversation, Tiffany quit her tech company job and launched her new venture, The Cru, a peer coaching service for women wanting to accelerate their professional and personal growth. And she is writing that second book. Are any “________” beliefs holding you back from your next move?
“old dinosaur”
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The Diversity and Inclusion Remixer: Natalia Oberti Noguera
When I requested an interview with Natalia and told her that the theme of this book was “the remix,” she immediately brought up the musical concept of sampling as an important addition to discuss. While remixing involves adding, changing, or ______ an original piece of music, sampling is taking a portion of one recording and reusing it directly in a new recording. The distinction, as Natalia put it to me, is that sampling gives credit to and amplifies the original.
modifying
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The Diversity and Inclusion Remixer: Natalia Oberti Noguera
According to Natalia, “If you want to be inclusive, be ______.” (While I was writing this book, I noticed Natalia’s tweet, “Searching for Black and/or Latinx and/or Indigenous women/femme photographers and videographers for a paid project next week in NYC.”)
explicit
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The Diversity and Inclusion Remixer: Natalia Oberti Noguera
She is also transparent about the mistakes she has made regarding inclusion. She quips, “Best practices often come from ________.” Pipeline Angels is a remote team from around the country, and last summer Natalia brought everyone together for a dinner in San Francisco.
best mistakes
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The Diversity and Inclusion Remixer: Natalia Oberti Noguera
Being an inclusive leader does not mean being a perfect leader, but it does mean learning from your missteps and creating a culture of “________,” as activist and writer Micky ScottBey Jones says, where people can have brave conversations.
“brave space”
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The Corporate Remixer: Bill Fisse
Bill is a master of mixing the old and the new in a scalable way. “In my nearly four decades at Citi,” Bill says, “the core of our culture has never changed. We have always been known as a place that promotes career mobility across business lines, products, functions, and geographies. What has changed tremendously is the _________ Millennials and Gen Zs want.
nature of mobility
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The Corporate Remixer: Bill Fisse
Millennials and Zs do not want a straight line to managing director. They want to work for a company whose values are ______ with things that are important to them.”
aligned
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The Corporate Remixer: Bill Fisse
Bill has also supported the company’s move to a ________ performance rating system to improve the people management skills of the company’s leaders. The new system assesses the firm’s managers, many of whom oversee Millennials and Gen Zs, on both what they achieve (work accomplishments) and how they go about achieving that (leadership and interpersonal effectiveness with the people they manage). “
two-pronged
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The Entrepreneurial Remixer: Jon Steinberg
Jon Steinberg is the former president of BuzzFeed and currently founder and CEO of Cheddar Inc., a Millennial- and Gen Z–focused news network. A true remixer, Jon analyzed the data that the median age of the MSNBC and Fox News viewer was ___, and CNN’s was 60, and realized it might be time for a fresh news option. Besides leading a network for Millennials and Gen Zs, the majority of Jon’s employees come from this demographic as well.
65
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The Entrepreneurial Remixer: Jon Steinberg
[Jon] is one of the most transparent and authentic leaders I have come across.
The author, Lindsey Pollak regards Jon Steinberg as one of the most transparent and authentic leaders.
