The Top 4 Career Stallers and Stoppers

Jul 22 2023

by Paula Kerr, Ronald Porter, and Sarah Hazlett, originally published by KF Insights

New Korn Ferry research finds that a handful of bad behaviors hamper career progress.

Many ambitious workers spend their whole careers toiling and strategizing to get ahead. If their career trajectories plateau, they may blame the bosses who failed to recognize their brilliance and promote them, or the corporate politics that hampered their ascent, or the no-win assignments they took on. They point at everyone and everything except themselves.

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