374: The Two Seats Most People Leave Empty in their Career Squad
Since 2023 I have talked about the Career Squad Framework with hundreds of people. Two gaps come up more than any other, every single time. The Sponsor is the most common gap people have. The Critic is the rarest relationship most people have ever actually built.
That's not a coincidence, and today I'm going deep on both. Not just what these two relationships are, why they're so hard to build in the first place, and exactly how to go build them anyway.
How to get visible to the right people, without it feeling like self-promotion.
What to actually say when you're finally ready to ask for…
The skinny
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