Lateral Moves

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4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Could a lateral move help your career? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Priscilla Claman, a career coach and former HR executive. They talk through when making a lateral move will push you forward and when it will hold you back.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.6	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.7	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.2	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.5	The truth is that we don't have to let the tension, conflicts, and misunderstandings get us down.
0:22.9	We can do something about them. That's where Dear HBR comes in. We take your questions about workplace dilemmas,
0:30.1	and with the help of experts and insights from academic research, we help you move forward.
0:38.7	Today we're talking about lateral moves with former HR executive and now career coach
0:43.5	Priscilla Klayman.
0:44.9	Priscilla, thanks for being on the show.
0:46.9	I'm looking forward to it.
0:48.8	Priscilla, what's the most common question you get from your clients about lateral moves?
0:53.0	Most commonly, my clients don't want a lateral move, and they don't see the opportunity in it.
0:59.3	Why do people have such a negative reaction to lateral moves?
1:02.6	It's one of the big career misconceptions, which is the only way to have a career is to move up, move up, move up, move up.
1:10.6	Bigger is better, huh?
1:11.5	Bigger is better.
1:12.4	The title, the bigger the title.
1:14.5	Yeah.
1:15.2	Whereas I see plenty of opportunities in lateral moves.
1:18.3	Sometimes in order to go up, you need to go sideways.
1:22.3	Looking laterally is really just as important as it is driving a car.
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