🤫 The Silent Career Killer #32
Mistaking Strategic Fluency for Strategic Power | Unmasking 50 hidden threats to your UX career | part 32 of 50
Let me tell you about someone I mentored last year.
Let’s call her Nina.
Nina was smart, articulate, and deeply respected.
She had the kind of brain that saw three steps ahead.
She knew the product inside and out.
Her ideas were thoughtful, well-framed, and quietly influential.
But when her company reorganized, she was left off the strategy team.
She didn’t get cut.
She just didn’t get called in.
She came to me with a question I’ve heard dozens of times:
“I’m always brought in early… but somehow, never early enough to shape anything.”
That’s when I introduced her to a trap I see over and over again ↴