INSTANT MBA: Bloom Where You're Planted
Today's advice comes from Terry Lundgren, CEO of Macy's:
"I was a trainee at Bullock's, and then I was moved into my first assistant buying job. I happened to get called up by the guy who recruited me off of campus, who I just had total admiration for, a guy named Gene Ross.
And I told him, 'Well, you know, it's not really going that great, and I was wondering, you know, if I could go move in another department, I think I could do more.'
And he just nodded his head and looked at me, and he pointed in his office over his shoulder to a poster. It had a little tree in a pot, and it said, 'Bloom where you're planted.'
You're not going to do this forever. There's a finite amount of time you're going to be doing this. Do this really, really well. And if you do this really, really well, everybody will see that, and they'll move you onto the next thing. And you do that well, and then you'll move.
And that was fantastic advice for me."
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