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Working harder will not turn you into an effective executive.

Posted on November 17, 2025 by admin

Working harder will not turn you into an effective executive.
But most people keep trying, and then wonder why they’re not making progress.

You earned success by outworking everyone, saying yes to everything asked of you, and solving every problem yourself. But that strategy also meant that people kept giving you more work.

If you stay on that path, you will get stuck, feeling like you’ve hit a career plateau despite working until you’re exhausted on a daily basis.

That happened to me – I burned out at Google trying to earn a promotion because I thought that I had to do everything myself. It wasn’t until I learned to lead differently that everything changed.

I went on to lead business strategy and operations as Chief of Staff for the Google Search Ads team for over 6 years, hitting the peak of my career _after_ I stopped working so hard.

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