The document discusses career options and advice for navigating a career path. It recommends finding opportunities, taking risks outside your comfort zone, and finding the right workplace. The document advises against staying in jobs you don't like long hoping for change or changing jobs too frequently just for more titles or pay. It also lists factors related to the old and new normal of legal skills and needs.

1. Multiple career options
Choices I made
Hans Albers
Chief of Staff/Head of Legal
Operations
Juniper Networks, Inc.

2. My career and how I got here

3. Don’t plan too much; be prepared to:
• Find opportunities;
• Take risk: no job is for life/ no guarantees
• Step outside your comfort zone
• Find the right place to work for YOU!
• Quit jobs you don’t like
• Embrace change; it’s inevitable
• Don’t get hung up on job titles

4. Things to avoid:
• Hang around too long hoping things will
change
• Change jobs all the time for more
• Being passive and relying on others

5. about People Management?Is
OR
Contribution

6. Reactive
More spend = more quality
Highly specialized
One matter at a time
Ethics
Individual
Scarce
Leave no stone unturned
The law
Adversarial
Expert
Given
Complexity
Strategic
Save Money
Generalist
All matters
Effectiveness
Team
Abundant
Look under right stone
The Business
Collaborative
Learner
Always at risk
Simple
• Time-orientation
• Cost orientation
• Specialization
• Problem orientation
• Source of pride
• Locus of production
• Information
• On stones
• Primary knowledge
• Temperament
• Self-Image
• Commercial Success
• Likes
Source: Paul Lippe (various publications)
Old Normal New Normal
Legal skills and needs are/have changed