When most people hear of Career Development, they think of a promotion. But as it has been said: Up is not the only way. I’ve been doing some research on the benefits of lateral career moves as part of my work in the area of Career Development. I found these excellent videos at the Stanford’s Entrepreneurship site of Carol Bartz. Carol was recently in the news when she was appointed CEO of Yahoo! after a very successful run at Autodesk.
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=10
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1410
(WordPress doesn’t allow embeds from these sites…but they are well worth a visit!)
lrnr.net 