The Squiggly Career
Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis · 2020
The Squiggly Career (2020) is a book by Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis on Modern non-linear careers. The career ladder is dead, today's careers twist sideways, loop back, and leap into the unknown. This is a practical playbook for thriving in that squiggle by building on your strengths, values, confidence, networks, and future possibilities.
A practical playbook for navigating today's non-linear careers built on strengths, values, and networks.
Three of the ideas you’ll keep
The Clif summary of The Squiggly Career pulls out 8 insights. Here are the first three.
- Stop chasing the ladder and design a 'squiggly' career: in a volatile, uncertain world, lateral and unconventional moves often grow you faster than waiting for the next promotion.
- Find your super strengths, the things you're both great at AND energized by, and put the bulk of your development effort into growing them rather than grinding away at the weaknesses that drain you.
- Name your 3–5 core values and turn them into a decision filter: when a choice aligns with what truly matters to you, say yes faster and with less second-guessing.
The other 5 — and the full 10-minute summary — are in the app.
What’s inside: 6 chapters
The whole summary runs about 10 minutes, read or listened to.
- Goodbye Ladder, Hello Squiggle
- Play to Your Super Strengths
- Get Clear on Your Values
- Cage Your Confidence Gremlins
- Build Networks Based on Giving
- Explore Your Future Possibilities
Finish The Squiggly Career tonight.
Read or listen to the full summary in about 10 minutes, then keep the ideas with a minute of review a day. Start with the 2-minute quiz — no card required.
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