{"id":2810,"date":"2015-01-19T09:40:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T02:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keblog.demoapp.xyz\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2024-05-06T16:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T09:03:29","slug":"how-to-avoid-the-three-deadliest-career-traps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/how-to-avoid-the-three-deadliest-career-traps","title":{"rendered":"How to Avoid The Three Deadliest Career Traps"},"content":{"rendered":"

One minute you\u2019re up, the next minute you\u2019re down \u2013 this can be the feeling one can get by falling into a career trap. Things can certainly change on a dime if an employee \u2013 whether you are an experienced CEO or\u00a0a newly-promoted manager\u00a0\u2013 is not aware of these traps. Author Bruce Kasanoff sounds the alarm on them:\u00a0Thanks to the consistency of human nature, there are classic career traps that cause smart people to self-destruct. If you avoid these traps, you can protect your career and preserve your ability to be effective:<\/i><\/p>\n

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  1. <\/i>The \u201cego-driven blind spot\u201d trap \u2013 One of the biggest challenges to acquiring power is that fewer and fewer people are willing to give you objective feedback. If you suddenly are praised as a genius, your internal alarms should sound.<\/i><\/li>\n
  2. <\/i>The \u201crepeat past successes\u201d trap – Successful people tend to repeat the strategies that made them successful. While this often makes sense for a time, the only constant in our world is change.<\/i><\/li>\n
  3. <\/i>The \u201cuse power too personally\u201d trap \u2013 Use power for the benefit of others.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Kasanoff goes on to say that \u201ccareer traps are just as common as career opportunities\u201d and ends with some useful food for thought:\u00a0Remain confident but humble, and don\u2019t step into an obvious trap. The smartest people I know get up every day aware that their toughest challenge is doing what they know to be right, instead of what is immediately gratifying.<\/i>\u00a0For tips on how to avoid these career traps, check out\u00a0the full article here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    One minute you\u2019re up, the next minute you\u2019re down \u2013 this can be the feeling one can get by falling into a career trap. Things can certainly change on a dime if an employee \u2013 whether you are an experienced CEO or\u00a0a newly-promoted manager\u00a0\u2013 is not aware of these traps. Author Bruce Kasanoff sounds the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[21,233,254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}