12 Rules for Career Success

1. Ensure your marketability
2. Think globally
3. Communicate powerfully, persuasively, and unconventionally
4. Keep on learning
5. Understand business trends
6. Prepare for areas of competence, not jobs
7. Look to the future
8. Build financial independence
9. Think lattice. Not ladders.
10. Be a generalist with a specialty or a specialist who’s a generalist.
11. Be a ruthless time manager.
12. Be kind to yourself.[i]

[i] Moses, Barbara, “Career Intelligence: The 12 New Rules for Success,” The Futurist, August/September, 1999, pp. 28-35.