Career CraftingFinding your Zone of Genius

Angela Lee

Associate Dean & Chief Innovation Officer, Columbia Business School

Founder, 37 Angels

Genius

Excellence

Competence

Incompetence

Experiment

Reflect

Stretch

Experiment

Reflect

Stretch

Get uncomfortable

Be strategic

What do people

see?

Experiment

Reflect

Stretch

Expand your network

Engage your network

Experiment

Reflect

Stretch

Sometimes you have to let go

What makes your heart sing?

Experiment

Reflect

Stretch

Your turn

• What can you do this month to get uncomfortable?

• Who can nudge you? Who can you nudge?

• What business skills are missing from your toolkit?

• How to fill in those missing business skills?

Stretch

Experiment

Reflect

• How to increase weak ties in your network?

• How to engage existing network efficiently/authentically?

• What is a career experiment you can run to learn?

• How to change your intro to lead to opportunities?

• What shoulds are you currently holding onto?

• What can you let go of / say no to in order to make time?

• What does your ideal day look like?

• What makes your heart sing?

Resources

• Adam Grant: Give & Take

• MultipliersBooks.com (Quiz)

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow

• Timothy Butler: Getting Unstuck

• Tom Rath: How Full Is Your Bucket

• Peter Bregmen: 18 Minutes

• Carol Dweck: Mindset

• Contact management: Newsle & Robuzz

• Bookmark management: Diigo

• Meditation: Headspace

• Slideshare angelawlee

Books

Tools

This deck

@angelawlee

How will you make time?