About this episode

This episode explains how sponsorship, rather than mentorship, is crucial for career advancement in large organizations.

If you've done everything right at work and still watched someone else get the promotion, this episode explains the layer of advancement most people never discover. Saeid breaks down how promotion decisions in large organizations are often made before any formal process begins, why sponsorship works on a transactional basis that nobody likes to admit out loud, and how to find a sponsor not by impressing people but by solving something they actually need solved. He also covers how roles get created for specific people at senior levels, and what it took for that to happen to him personally. For anyone who has hit a ceiling they couldn't explain and suspects the answer isn't more hard work.

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