The key pieces of the career survival and success puzzle

Explores the key pieces of today’s career survival and success puzzle. A survey of more then 5,000 managers (both stateside and internationally, and from CEOs to supervisors) was conducted using an open‐ended questionnaire. Managers were asked to list what factors they had found in their careers to be the keys to their career survival and success. This list was then compiled and analyzed. It was found that 20 factors were the most often mentioned factors for career survival and success. This list was then again sent to managers and yielded ten factors as being the key pieces of the career survival and success puzzle. Discusses these ten key pieces to the career survival and success puzzle and suggests that in today’s competitive global environment it is important that they be properly integrated together, to give managers their best opportunity career‐wise to survive and succeed.