treadmill or travelator?

How does your career path look, like a treadmill or like a travelator?

For most people it’s fairly easy to tell because they are head down, covering the same ground – day in, day out. They are relentlessly driving the treadmills that power our organizations.

But even those who believe that they are striding purposefully towards a goal, using a travelator to accelerate their progress, may find that they are actually on a treadmill – albeit with a much longer band. Travelators may save time and energy but don’t generate power.

Getting to a destination quickly isn’t much good unless you have something purposeful to do when you arrive.