As the responsibilities of leaders become more complex and ambiguous, it’s worth asking: is the straight and narrow career path still the optimal one for developing tomorrow’s leaders? In my ...

In today’s ever-changing professional landscape, the traditional notion of a linear career path is fading into obsolescence in favor of a more portfolio-style journey. This paradigm shift invites ...

Workers are choosing career paths that don’t resemble the clear trajectory from graduation to retirement that their parents might have mapped out. These paths bypass proverbial career ladders and ...

Employers should focus on developing nonlinear career pathways as burned out workers begin to question their futures, and they could turn to external partnerships to do so, according to a Josh Bersin ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. Lightning does it. The stock market does it, too. And animals ...

More than a third of female CFOs in the FTSE 100 have followed non-linear career paths, moving between functions, organisations and sectors. New findings suggest that this is setting them up for ...

The world of work has changed massively over the past few years, with employees exploring different career paths that traditionally weren't popular before. Data from Randstad's 2026 Workmonitor Report ...

Venture capital and growth equity have a bias toward clean, linear stories. Up and to the right is easy to recognize, easy to explain, and easy to underwrite. When growth becomes uneven, we often ...

Alan Kern joined BigTime Software as a business development rep, and 11 months into his role, he was being eyed for a promotion. But instead, he said he decided to pursue a role on the engineering ...