Generalist Disease - by Dan Hockenmaier - Dan Hock's Essays
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What elite professionals get wrong about career growth
I’m taking a brief break from writing about scaling tech companies to share some advice I wish I could send to myself at the start of my career. I’ll be back to the usual stuff soon. Subscribe to join the 1,107 people who joined since my last essay: I once fell asleep in the lobby of Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge at 3:00am while editing a 200-page deck about how to get people to visit more theme parks. But contrary to the bad rap that big consulting firms get, BCG was a great place to start my career. I met a lot of ambitious people and got a bootcamp in the basics of how to write, speak,…
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