People make progress by moving.

If you're going to do that, you want to make as much progress as you can within a single move.

We have not written a book about finding your dream job because we don't believe in dream jobs.

We believe in good trade-offs.

So we encourage

people to not answer the question, what do you want to do next? We instead ask people to answer the

question, what are three to five prototypes of what you might want to do next, given the question you're on.

That's Ethan Bernstein. He's an associate professor at the Harvard Business School where he teaches the developing yourself as a leader course.

He's also the author of Job Moves, Nine Steps for Making Progress in Your Career, with Michael B. Horn and Bob Moesta.

So you'll learn one, the four quests driving every career transition.

Two, the exercise that keeps you relevant.

And three, the problem with

job descriptions and what to focus on instead. And if you want a quick summary write-up of some

of these actionable takeaways, I recommend you sign up for the free Golden Nugget email

newsletter at awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now,

here's Ethan. Ethan, welcome. Thank you, Pete. It's great to be here. Well, I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at your job. And now, here's Ethan.

Ethan, welcome. Thank you, Pete. It's great to be here.

Well, I'm so excited to hear some of your wisdom. And I'd love to know you are teaching and

researching organizational behavior. And that was a field of study that I did. And I love it so much.

Can you share with us a particularly surprising or fascinating discovery you've made about us humans

and organizations that has really struck you and stuck with you?

So I spend my days and sometimes nights studying workplaces, particularly trends in workplaces like increased transparency,

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