Here’s what I wrote there:

What is a personal work strategy. (This is where to start.)
A few weeks ago, I wrote up my notes on business strategy based on a class I took at the Harvard Business School. I think the same principles apply to individuals who are seeking to be excellent employees. So I’ve rewritten my notes to apply to individuals, both job seekers and those who are currently employed.

Your personal strategy, especially if you are a job seeker, requires tradeoffs between providing every type of work you can to a wide audience, and making more tightly focused choices. If you define what you can do too broadly, you run the risk of not being taken seriously by employers, and losing focus in your search for a job or your attempt to make yourself invaluable to your employer. Define what you really want to do–the type of work, and even the industry you fit best with, and go after the unadvertised jobs.

Consider the world with you versus the world without you. The difference is your unique added value—what would be lost to the world if you disappeared?” Can you identify your “economic difference that matters”? What is the added value that you bring to the table?

What would happen to your current (or future) employer if you couldn’t work? To whom would it matter and why? How long would it take another employee to step into that void?

Purpose should be at the heart of strategy. It should give direction to every part of your work. What is your purpose in working?

Your work strategy is an evolving process, not something you do once and it’s done forever. Guiding this never-ending process, bringing perspective to the midst of action and purpose to the flow—not solving the work strategy puzzle once—is your crowning economic responsibility.

For the original writeup on business strategy, click here: http://tinyurl.com/c4s32t