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Future of Work Expert, Keynote Speaker, NY Times Bestselling Author - Dan Schawbel

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Trend: CEOs Encourage Employees to Take Risks

March 26, 2013 By Dan Schawbel • 1 Comment • Career Advice

getoutfreeIn the Wall Street Journal, there is a story about Jim Donald, the CEO of Extended Stay America. After the hotel company emerged from bankruptcy and Jim took over, employees were still worried about losing their jobs and avoiding making hard decisions, which could cost them their jobs. As a result, Jim gave everyone a safety net by handing out “Get Out of Jail” free cards to the 9,000 employees. Each employee was pushed to take a risk and wasn’t penalized by doing it. Instead, they would just turn their card in.

Although this may be one example, more CEOs are pushing employees to take risks because that’s the only way business can move forward and a culture of innovation can emerge.  “Bold workers” are harder to come by these days because everyone fears getting laid off and becoming a job seeker again when there aren’t any jobs. I believe that it’s a bigger risk not taking a risk in your career. I know that seems wordy, but it’s important that you realize that you can’t be static in your career because the workplace is unstable and you have to not only adapt to change but cause change to happen.


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  1. Thad Poreda says

    April 9, 2013 at 11:59 am

    Amounts of job seekers happen to be increasing since ever and the numbers of jobs also have increased which will help candidates go for the job they are interested in. There are numerous sources that could be used for job search and many of it is also very reliable. Today, looking for jobs has become very easy as a result of presence of internet. Various websites are available which allows users to include their details plus return provides them with the assistance to locate a job. Various other sources are manually coming to the places, going to places when you are referred by already employees in some companies etc. A tool which is available in finding a job is really a job search engine which supplies various features like selecting from your huge pool of jobs. We can enter some kind of field about which we would like to search the job and apply for them. Different publication rack also registered with these job search engines and they post their advertisements in a variety of categories to allow people apply for these jobs as well as the remaining process is scheduled later. Job seekers can apply for the jobs compatible with their skills and requirements…

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