An indispensable guide to decision-making and risk-taking for anyone who
finds themselves afraid of making a wrong choice in their career. This
fresh, new approach comes from one of the most highly regarded and
well-respected female tech executives in Silicon Valley, who has made
many wrong choices in her career, but has learned how to turn those down
moments into successes.
Life is made up of a series of choices. What do you do if one of those
choices turns out poorly, especially if it was carefully considered? How
do you trust your instinctive decision-making skills and make the next
right choice? How do you continue to take risks when, suddenly, your
risks are not working out?
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy will be the first to admit that her path to
success has been far from linear. She started three companies that have
done exceedingly well, including theBoardlist (an organization designed
to promote and place women onto corporate boards), and she just served
as president of StubHub, which sold earlier this year for $4 billion.
But she's also encountered plenty of poor choices, misfires, unexpected
headwinds, and other types of pitfalls that she had to learn how to
confront, analyze, navigate, and incorporate into her new path forward.
From her own experience, she knows that personal success does not come
from making one singular "correct" or "big" decision. Rather, long-range
success comes from tackling numerous choices that are aimed to optimize
future possibilities.
Singh Cassidy's seven myths of success, as well as her advice on how to
make FOMO into your friend, multiply your bets in life, and understand
why you shouldn't be blinded by passion bias, all provide an entirely
new way to approach risk-taking and achieve lasting success.
