What is Career Project Know-how?
In a phrase, it is “practical wisdom”. It is both a day to day practice and a long-term personal worldview – connecting to and strengthening each other – through turbulence and flux. Thus, it is similar to the “skillful means” of Buddhism and the “phronesis” emphasized by Aristotle 24 centuries ago.
Even today, meditation or active citizenship may help many people enhance their practical wisdom. However, for most people working in the 21st century, this wisdom is probably best nurtured via their lived experience and their project work.
If you are an early- to mid-career professional today, your project work and your career are not separate things. Every project you take on shapes how you see yourself in the world — and how you see yourself shapes which projects you take on and what your teams can do in them. This dynamic, running quietly through your life, is what we call career project know-how. It is this dynamic that Cogent Language mentoring exists to help you explore, clarify, and enhance.
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