From the course: Career Advice from Some of the Biggest Names in Business

Niels B. Christiansen on following your interests and great leadership

From the course: Career Advice from Some of the Biggest Names in Business

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Niels B. Christiansen on following your interests and great leadership

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- All right. and I'd love to finish these interviews with the question about career advice. Can you talk a little bit about what advice you give to people when they're just starting their career? - I Think it's important early on in the career to work with things you really like. Where you are just naturally curious about it, because it's interesting. You tend to excel in doing what you really, really like and this extra hour or whatever you want to put in at some point, just makes it become so much easier to put that in if you really enjoy what it is and you're truly interested in it. If you can combine that with actually finding a good leader to work for and work closely with, I think that's where whatever leadership skills you can learn by being close to somebody early in career, I think that will actually make your career path steeper. And I would prioritize some of those things way over pushing very hard for a higher salary very early or pushing very hard for a fine title very early because that I think would just bring you into areas It may look good on your business card when you are 30 but it will not put you on the same steep curve for the longer run. So I would be patient about some of those things and focusing on working with what I'm interested in, close to somebody that I really think I can learn something from. And then I'm pretty sure the opportunities is will arrive.

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