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VC in three exited Unicorns. Angel investor. Harvard Business School Lecturer. Obsessed with fly fishing and a recovering ENTJ.

Category: Career management

Autonomy vs. Impact

March 23, 2017May 24, 2024 Jo Tango

I this week was sharing with someone the results of a test I took at b-school. We had to rank-order 20+ job criteria. Top of the list for me? Autonomy. Bottom? Money. A bit later, I saw a blog post shared in my Facebook feed that had this graphic: It’s from someone whom I don’t

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Hawaiian Smoothies

November 30, 2016November 30, 2016 Jo Tango

One of the things I love doing is meeting with college students or recent graduates about life advice and career management topics. I cannot meet with everyone, but do the best that I can. This morning, I met with one of my son’s former high school classmates, whom I’ll call Bill to protect his privacy.

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Torrence Boone

November 8, 2016November 9, 2016 Jo Tango

I’ve met so many amazing people in my life. One of the people whom I most admire is Torrence Boone. He and I first met when we were lowly plebes at Bain & Co. We were in the same training group, in a program that gathered all plebes from around the world and put us

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‘Rebooting’ Your Life

June 2, 2016 Jo Tango

I recently had a conversation with someone going through a “life reboot.” There are moments in life that are crossroads: changing jobs, ending a long-term relationship, moving, a spiritual epiphany, ending old habits, the death of a loved one, etc. I’ve written in the past about crossroads. IMO, however, I think certain crossroads involve a huge

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Escaping from Alcrataz

May 23, 2016May 24, 2016 Jo Tango

When I was sitting where you are, back in 1989, I would’ve told you that I wanted to be a lawyer. I didn’t really know what lawyers do all day, but I knew they first had to go to law school, and school was familiar to me. I had been competitively tracked from middle school

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‘We Are Our Choices’

April 27, 2016March 23, 2017 Jo Tango

I asked: “Why did you quit your hedge fund job, pack up everything you had and move to a new city to start a risky company?” He replied: “I wanted to minimize life’s regrets. You regret acts of omission, not acts of commission. You regret what you didn’t do rather than what you did do.” I

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