What Do Career Journeys Have To Do With Harry Potter and Katniss Everdeen?
summary
Narrative maps a personal career arc onto the hero's journey claiming a single organizing aim one purpose: be the best version, details an international leap from India to the US, a CIO role, and a failed digital transformation where the business was not ready and the leader missed network building — labeled a spectacular failure in a digital transformation. Lessons focus on rejecting perfectionism, accepting ambition, finding community as saving grace and recovering by reframing failures into learning.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction and purpose
- 3:58Leap of faith to the unknown
- 10:06Spectacular failure and self-doubt
- 12:56Reconciling ambition and power
- 14:03Finding purpose after failure
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