Maximize Your Potential

Redefining What Work Means Today

If you are ambitious, think of yourself as a “free radical,” someone who wants and expects to manage his or her own career. As a free radical, you’re resilient. You have genuine power. You’re flexible. You rely completely on yourself. You dislike old boy networks, bureaucracy and fusty business practices. You do your best to work around archaic, confining strictures. 

You believe in transparency. Privacy makes you suspicious. Meritocracy matters. You expect a lot from yourself and from your current employer, just as you did from your past employers and just as you will from your future employers. And, yes, having multiple employers is likely. In today’s world of work, the average person will have 11 different jobs over the course of a career.  

As a free radical, you’re in the process of re-defining what work means today. You want to have a positive impact on the world and on those around you. You’re always ready to move on to another firm if you can no longer develop your skills or make significant contributions. You’re a fan of open-source technology and...