Blog.

It's 5:47pm. You're aligning bullet points on slide 14. Your CEO is in a strategy session you weren't invited to. You took this role — Executive Assistant to the CEO — because you wanted to be close to decisions. Instead, you are very close to PowerPoint. The strategic right-hand seat you signed up for has quietly turned out to be an operational one. Name the feeling exactly. It's not failure. It's not even disappointment, quite. It's the slow realisation that proximity to p

You're almost 30, and four years into the company. You started as a junior. You had your first promotion eighteen months in, and you're now on an expert track that's starting to feel like yours. After years of quietly wondering whether you really belonged, you finally feel confident about what you're doing — and, more quietly, about what you're worth to the company. In addition, you like your supervisor. You like your team. The next two roles on your track are visible from wh