My friend Brent told me once that many professionals lack an exit strategy. I agree. If you think what you’re doing today will last forever you’re…well…crazy. This comes from a man who has had more than one balloon popped by change. It took me a number of years, but now I see change as a friend and not an enemy. Your next chapter is inevitably held up by hanging on when you should let go, and man is it tough to let go.<\/p>\n
Disclaimer here; if you’re called to see it through to the end, even when the odds are against you, then you should do it. That’s destiny at work. When I was ceremoniously escorted out of corporate America all of my exit doors were shut before I could do anything…or so I thought. Don’t mean to make you wince, but I was supposed to lose. I was supposed have things turned upside down. Without those events, I’m confident I wouldn’t be the man I am today. <\/p>\n
In many ways and exit strategy can be a win masked as a loss.<\/p>\n
See this piece<\/a> from the The Washington Post<\/a> on the record industry. What a last gasp for air. Do you think the RIAA<\/a> (Recording Industry Association of America) needs an exit strategy? Can any individual or organization afford to not have one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My friend Brent told me once that many professionals lack an exit strategy. I agree. If you think what you’re doing today will last forever you’re…well…crazy. This comes from a man who has had more than one balloon popped by change. It took me a number of years, but now I see change as a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-commentary","category-life-perspectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}