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Possibilities Are the New Promotion

For decades, promotions have been the default definition of career development, establishing unattainable and unsustainable expectations for millions of employees who didn’t know there was another way to grow. The fallout of this can be seen all around you. In engagement results. Organizational culture surveys. Unwanted turnover.

But employees aren’t the only ones who’ve been victimized by this narrow and outdated definition. So have you. And so has every other manager who’s tried valiantly to work within and around this broken system: Every manager who’s ever been criticized or poorly rated by an employee ...

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