Words To Live By: Strategic Underachieving

Karen Woodward, at Industry Nexus, coins a phrase she hopes will catch on:
Strategic Underacheivery

We don’t want to give up so much of ourselves to the corporate world that we don’t have enough left for our real lives. We don’t want to work long hours and we don’t want our bosses calling us on weekends. So we strategically underachieve.

It’s for every assistant who’s really a choreographer, every PA with a kiln, everyone whose ever said
“I am not my resume.”

Us?

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