Forget the corporate ladder — winners take risks | Molly Graham

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🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Success in your career looks different for everyone — but no matter your industry, you'll need to take risks. Company and community builder Molly Graham shares three key skills to learn before jumping off the metaphorical cliff, outlining a path off the corporate ladder and into true professional and personal growth.

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0:00.0	TED Audio Collective.
0:09.3	You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:14.9	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:16.8	Maybe you relate to this.
0:18.1	When I was in college, there was this idea that after we graduated, we'd go from a smaller job to a medium job to a bigger job, and it all worked in a linear, ladder-like fashion.
0:30.0	It wasn't until way later that I realized that the stairs of success model isn't always so fulfilling.
0:37.1	In her 2024 talk,
0:38.9	Serial Strategic Advisor Molly Graham
0:41.0	offers advice on how to step off those career stairs
0:44.4	and get good at making major career decisions.
0:48.2	It's coming up after the break.
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1:29.6	And now our TED Talk of the Day. There's a lot of pressure around what it takes to build a great
1:36.8	career. And it all comes back to this idea that you're supposed to know what you want to do.
1:43.5	It's an idea that I like to call the stairs.
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