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Opportunity does not come gift wrapped. You must take risks.

—Nina Bhatti, CEO, Kokko

I want to bust my guts doing work that’s of no consequence whatsoever to my career,” said no one, ever. And yet, we’ve all found ourselves stuck, grinding away at thankless, low-visibility tasks because we wanted to be the overachiever, the good corporate citizen, or felt awkward saying no. You throw up your hand and say, “Sure, I’ll do it,” then come to regret it.

Sit on that hand for now. I’m going to share an important principle that you need to take full advantage of in order to capitalize on the career-accelerating ...

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