Campaign for Your Career

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Harvard Business Review

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🗓️ 4 October 2012

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Dorie Clark, strategy consultant and author of the HBR article "A Campaign Strategy for Your Career."

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0:00.0	If you work with early career professionals, my colleagues at
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0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the H-BRA Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.0	I'm Sarah Green.
0:34.1	I'm talking today with Dory Clark, a strategy consultant,
0:37.0	former presidential campaign advisor,
0:39.1	and the author of the HBO article,
0:40.9	a campaign strategy for your career.
0:43.0	Tori, thanks so much for coming in.
0:45.0	Thanks for having me, Sarah.
0:46.0	So the article you essentially argue that you need to map out a campaign strategy to get ahead,
0:51.0	just like a politician does.
0:52.0	Some of the principles here were actually really strategy to get ahead just like a politician does.
0:52.8	Some of the principles here were actually really helpful.
0:55.8	For instance, you start by talking about how politicians have two things a lot of people
0:59.2	don't, which is a clear goal and a deadline.
1:01.6	Talk to us about how we can use those principles to plan our own careers.
1:06.0	Well, when I used to work in politics, one of the things that we do on most campaigns is you'd literally take a huge calendar and you'd photocopy it and blow it up and
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