DO YOU KNOW THE SECOND BIGGEST CAREER MANAGEMENT MISTAKE?

+PLUS: EXECUTIVES WHO ARE PREPARED FOR DISRUPTION DO BETTER THAN THOSE WHO WAITFOR THE ROOF TO CAVE IN ON THEM

3 QUOTES

“Great operators get tired, great owners get rich.” - Tony Robbins

“The biggest hurdle talented leaders face in achieving the brilliant success they deserve is getting our of their comfort zone.” - JGS

“In the world of supporting entrepreneurs and building business, the saddest story is about the person who quits because they did not do what they needed to do to achieve success that was just around the corner.” - Multiple sources

CAREER NOTES

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From Business Insider

Companies including UPS, META, Microsoft, BlackRock, and Bumble are conducting layoffs. Some have already occured. In other cases they will happen in the near. future. Monitor theWARN.gov site for layoffs at your company (locations with more than 100 employees)

• Job cuts are continuing in 2025 following two years of significant job cuts across tech, media, finance, manufacturing, retail and energy.

• Artificial Intelligence is reshaping some workforces.

• Many of these cuts appear to be strategic, and not directly related to the expected economic slowdown.

• At a recent World Economic Forum, 41% of companies worldwide said they expected to trim their workforces over the next five years because of the rise in artificial intelligence.

• Other companies announcing layoffs include CNN, Bumble, Adidas, Ally, Automatic including subsidiaries Tumblr and WordPress, FinTech Block, Blue Origin, Boeing, BP (British Petroleum) and hedge fund Bridgewater, Others include Burberry, Chevon, fragrance and cosmetics manufacture COTY, CrowdStrike, Estee Lauder, HPE (Hewlett Packard), Disney and Geico, which over an unspecified time has shed 30,000 people, according to Berkshire Hathaway.

• If the economy weakens, additional, more robust cuts are likely.

BIG Idea

“How did that guy get the job? "They fired him from a couple of CEO roles, and I'm much better than he is.”

That is a common, sometimes bitter complaint of senior executives who do not understand how dramatically the career management/job search market has changed. They think that doing a good job will produce recognition and reward. Unfortunately not. Not in a market that is so out of balance — with hundreds more executives looking for these top jobs than there are positions available.