Until recently, a successful career was often defined by loyalty to a single organisation, gradual promotions and a clearly mapped long-term trajectory. You entered the system, remained there and ...

Not long ago, careers were expected to follow a clear and steady path. A graduate joined a company, stayed for several years, moved up slowly and built a long association with one employer. The ladder ...

Even as recently as a decade ago, career paths looked more like ladders than stepping stones. They were linear, upward, and often frustratingly slow. But since the pandemic, businesses have been ...

The days of clocking 30 years at the same company and a gold watch retirement have gone the way of VCRs and typewriters. But while the concept of job-hopping has been around for years now, Gen Z has ...

Jeff Rosenthal is Co-CEO of ProjectNext Leadership, a global consulting firm focused on developing senior leaders and their teams. For many years, we've been talking about the increasing pace of ...

Gen Z, and Gen Z women in particular, are rethinking the traditional career ladder by embracing the “lily pad” approach - hopping between roles that offer growth, purpose, and flexibility, rather than ...

Brittany Harris-Nelson describes her career journey so far as being like "a frog moving across lily pads". "Each step brought me closer to where I ultimately wanted to be, even if the path wasn't ...