Climbing a career ladder or hoping to get promoted is the way of the past. Here are the new rules for getting ahead.
Conventional wisdom tells us that the way to foster career growth within a company is to look for the paths to growth and then take steps that have been defined. But Teri Cartensen, president of bank solutions at Fiserv, a $5.1 billion financial-services technology company, says that the best way to climb the corporate ladder is to create your own rungs.