Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan23 Mar 2022

Why You Need To Pay Attention To The Tangential

Most of the time, we're focused on what is right in front of us, especially with our careers.

But we need to pay attention to the tangentials. That means opening up a bit to notice the things on the sides related to our main focus.

For example, let's say you are in finance.

If you're someone who is paying attention to the tangentials, you would probably notice that there are a lot of conversations happening around the impact AI and technology might have on your job.

Because of this, you could ask yourself, where else can my skills and abilities be used besides just finance?

Then you would realize that your skills are also very much in demand in areas like HR data science and people analytics. You can now quickly pivot and bring your skills to another area.

If you had your blinders on, you would be very much stuck in finance and not have as many options to grow and expand.

This is why it's very important to pay attention to the tangentials.

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