THE CORPRENEUR BRIEF Intelligence for the executive who's building beyond the org chart. Issue #012 | Friday, June 19th

It's Friday. Let's look at what this week built.

Monday I asked you to identify one type of company with the exact problem you've spent your career solving. Wednesday I asked you to write one sentence that describes that problem and how your background positions you to solve it.

If you did both of those things, you just wrote the foundation of your advisory practice. I want you to understand what that actually means.

Most senior professionals spend years knowing they have something valuable to offer outside their company and never get more specific than a vague idea. You just got specific. You named a market. You named a problem. You named yourself as the solution. That's not a small thing. That's the work most people never do.

Now I want you to sit with something before we close out the week.

Standard Chartered just announced plans to eliminate close to 8,000 support roles over the next four years. Not in a crisis. As a deliberate multi-year strategy. And the employees in those roles are showing up to work right now with no idea they're on that list.

Here's what that tells me. Your employer has a plan for your function. It may be a great plan right now. But it's still their plan. Not yours.

You spent this week starting to build yours. That's the whole point. Not to panic. Not to leave. But to make sure that when the moment comes, and the moment always comes, you are not starting from zero. You have a market identified. You have a positioning statement. You have the beginning of something real.

That's what the Corpreneur builds. Quietly. Consistently. Alongside the career, not instead of it.

Come back Monday. We're opening a new conversation and it's one that I think is going to hit close to home for a lot of you.

Take the Corporate Income Audit this weekend if you haven't yet. Everything we did this week maps directly to what it reveals. Take the audit here.

Come into the community and share what this week built for you. Join The Corpreneur Community here.

Jay Britton Preparation × Discipline = Compound Interest