Stay or Go?

Dear HBR:

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🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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When is the right time for a new job? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Hal Gregersen, a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. They talk through what to do when you’re advancing in your role but itching for change, an outside job offer is making you question your current situation, or you’re considering going to a smaller organization for bigger responsibilities.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research,
0:22.5	talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.5	Today we're answering the question,
0:34.5	should I stay or should I go,
0:36.1	with Hal Gregerson, a senior lecturer at
0:38.3	MIT's Sloan School of Management. His latest book is Questions Are the Answer, a breakthrough
0:43.2	approach to your most vexing problems at work and in life. Hal, thanks so much for coming on the show.
0:48.7	Thank you, Allison. Delighted to be here. So this is the biggest career question of all, right?
0:56.9	It is. Oddly enough, framing it that way actually keeps us stuck in the dilemma. Because it just feels too high stakes and is paralyzing?
1:05.2	There are very few things in life that are truly either or. And when we look at the world through that, either I stay or I go, I think it's like putting
1:14.0	walls up that are simply unnecessary.
1:16.6	I feel like the question, should I leave this job, is kind of the subtext of almost
1:21.2	every letter we get on the show.
1:23.3	Do people have this inclination that, you know, well, quitting should be the last resort.
1:28.0	You should really find a way to make this work.
1:29.8	Should I stay or should I go as premised on really learning curves?
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