Is Your Future in the Individual Contributor or Manager Track?

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Panelists: Lauren Haworth (Genentech), Carola Fellenz Thompson (SAP Labs LLC), JeanAnn Nichols (Intel), Alysia Andrikopoulos (Google), Aglaia Kong (Symantec)

We're told that to get ahead in our careers, we need to move into management. But we get satisfaction from doing the technical work. Management is a good choice if it takes you in the right direction, and provides work that stimulates you. If you love what you do now, should you risk your happiness and move into management just because you're told it's the only way to get ahead?


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Blog post from attendee: http://brendal-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/ghc09-is-your-future-in-individual.html

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