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Stop Chasing Your Next Promotion.

Sep 16
1 min read

Jen Timmings has spent her career building one of the most dynamic teams in consumer goods at Kimberly-Clark North America. In this Career Northstar Executive Series piece, she shares the career advice she wishes someone had told her ten years ago. Stop looking up. Look sideways. The lateral moves, the cross-functional rotations, the moments she said yes to something that had nothing to do with the next title. Those are what actually accelerated her career. And the leaders who create the best teams are not the ones who climb fastest. They are the ones who build the widest foundation first.


 
 
 

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