Changing your orbit!

The CEO at an organisation I worked before had mentioned one day, "You should keep changing your orbit every few years!"

My interpretaton of his view was (perhaps not agreed to universally) that one should not stay in an organisation or in a role for a very long time. Besides, making you complacent, it tends to rust you as well. Staying at one place also breeds self doubt or fear of your ability to survive if you change anything. I could relate this interpretation with many examples that I had seen and continue to witness in my corporate life. It is so easy to enter that vicious cycle - avoiding change, leading to eroded self confidence which feeds back into avoiding change.

Well, I have continued to try and change my orbits. Post Cranfield MBA, I had joined the Supply Chain services sector. I've called it a day here and am getting into an industry which will perhaps bring together the knowledge and experience of all previous stints so far. Like always, it is upto me to make the most of it. Much of the locus of control is within, as I believe.