Doing great work doesn’t guarantee you’ll get promoted, recognized, or offered the opportunities you want. If you want to grow your career, you need more than strong performance. You need a career strategy.

In this episode of the Young Professional Survival Guide, Lisa Larson shares the career advice she wishes someone had given her earlier.

You’ll learn how to:

• Get clear on what you actually want from your career
• Talk to your manager about career growth and promotion
• Identify the skills you need for the next level
• Choose stretch assignments strategically without becoming a workaholic
• Build relationships and mentors beyond your immediate team
• Communicate your impact without feeling like you’re bragging
• Know when it may be time to reconsider your role, team, or company

One of the biggest career mistakes is assuming your manager knows what you want or that your work will simply speak for itself.

Work doesn’t speak. People do.

Your career deserves more intention than waiting for someone else to notice how hard you’re working.

Ask yourself: Is the path I’m on still taking me somewhere I actually want to go?

Do great work. Build your reputation. Develop your skills. Build relationships. Make your impact visible. Most importantly, be intentional about where you’re going next.

🎧 Clarity Under Pressure explores leadership, career growth, decision-making, burnout, and how to perform when the stakes are high.

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What is burnout costing you outside of work?

You can still be high-performing, hitting your goals, leading your team, and being the person everyone counts on while burnout quietly shows up somewhere else: your relationships, health, attention, sleep, and the experiences you're missing.

In this episode of Clarity Under Pressure, Lisa Larson explores the connection between burnout, decision fatigue, and decision friction.

Decision friction is everything that makes decisions harder, slower, or more mentally expensive than they need to be: unclear ownership, constant context switching, unnecessary escalation, incomplete information, unresolved decisions, and everything feeling urgent.

The workday may end, but those decisions can follow you home.

You'll learn:

• How decision friction contributes to cognitive overload and burnout
• Why unresolved decisions keep consuming mental energy
• How burnout can create even more decision friction
• Why taking a vacation doesn't necessarily solve the underlying problem
• How to identify decisions that aren't yours to carry
• A simple Reality Check to separate facts, assumptions, unknowns, and stories
• How to protect more of your attention and energy for the life outside of work

Ask yourself:

Where is work getting the best of you while the people and things you care about get what's left?

Reducing burnout isn't just about doing less. It's about carrying what's yours and letting others carry theirs.

If you want to see where decision friction may be consuming your time, attention, and energy, take the Decision Clarity Diagnostic.

Subscribe to Clarity Under Pressure for practical conversations about decision-making, leadership, cognitive performance, burnout, and thinking clearly when the stakes are high.

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Most leaders track KPIs, OKRs, and pipeline but nobody measures the quality of the decisions driving all of those numbers. That blind spot is where burnout lives.

In this episode, executive and leadership coach Lisa Larson shares the framework she built after burning out herself. She breaks down the five dimensions of Decision Clarity and why measuring decision friction is the most overlooked performance lever in leadership today.

Whether you're a C-suite executive, a founder scaling under pressure, or a leader who's been the strong one for too long, this talk is for you.

What you'll learn:

• Why burnout is a clarity problem, not a workload problem
• The five dimensions of decision friction every leader should know
• How to baseline your decision quality the same way you'd baseline any KPI
• The first step in the Decision Clarity Journey