"Building resilience is about taking risks and embracing opportunities. Everything you do in business is an opportunity to learn new skills. Look after yourself, support others, and try your very best."
"Even the best leaders recognize that reaching the top involves overcoming significant hurdles. In fact, as five business leaders explained to ZDNET, those challenges are a key element of learning to become a great leader. Up-and-coming professionals who embrace these trials, developing new skills and coping mechanisms, are most likely to continue climbing the career ladder."
"Martin Hardy, cyber portfolio and architecture director at Royal Mail, referred to a quote often attributed to Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Plans are pointless, but planning is everything." He told ZDNET that sentiment resonates strongly when he thinks about his resilience as he climbed the professional ladder and moved into IT leadership. "This is not how I planned my career to go in any way, shape, or form," he said. "It's ended up way better than I thought it ever would. I wanted to be a security architect at the time I was 40, not managing a team of security architects and all these other areas.""
Career resilience requires embracing risk, seizing opportunities, and treating everyday work as chances to develop new skills. Leaders encounter significant hurdles that function as essential learning experiences and help build coping mechanisms. Professionals who accept setbacks, remain persistent learners, and adapt plans increase their likelihood of progressing into senior roles. Practical behaviors include volunteering for unfamiliar responsibilities, tolerating imperfect outcomes, planning without rigid attachment to plans, and maintaining personal wellbeing while supporting colleagues. These approaches foster sustained career momentum and prepare individuals for leadership responsibilities.
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