指尖阅读——我的生涯我做主（三十一）

ABZ Planning is the antidote to the "what color is your parachute"approach to career planning. It is an adaptive approach to planning that promotes trial and error. It allows you to aggressively pursue upside and mitigate against possible downside risks. ABZ Planning isn't something you do once early in your career. It's a process as important for someone in their forties or fifties as for a newly minted college grad. There is no beginning, middle, or end to a career journey; no matter how old you are or at what stage, you will always be planning and adapting.

So what do A, B, and Z refer to exactly? Plan A is what you are doing right now. It's your current implementation of your competitive advantage. Within a Plan A you make minor adjustments as you learn; you iterate regularly. Plan B is what you pivot to when you need to change either your goal or the route for getting there. Plan B tends to be in the same general ballpark as Plan A. Sometimes you pivot because Plan A isn't working; sometimes you pivot because you've discovered a new opportunity that's just better than what you're doing now. In either case,don't write out an elaborate Plan B - things will change too much after the inkdries - but do give thought to your parameters of motion and alternatives. Once you pivot to a Plan B and stick with it, that because your new Plan A. Twenty years ago, Sheryl Sandberg's Plan A was the World Bank. Today, her Plan A is Facebook, because it's where she is right now.

Plan Z is the fallback position: your lifeboat. In business and life, you always want to keep playing the game.If failure means you end up on the street, that's an unacceptable failure. So what's your certain, reliable, stable plan if all your career plans to hell orif you want to do a major life change? That's Plan Z。The certainty of Plan Z is what allows you to take on uncertainty and risk in your Plan Aand B.

Later in the chapter we'll go intomore detail about each of these stages, but first we want to offer some general tips that apply at all stages of your career plan - whether it's A, B, or even Z.

人最大的悲哀，就是做了一辈子自己不喜爱的工作。人最大的失败，就是忙碌到死一事无成，还让后人看不到希望。没有规划的职业生涯，就象是没有目标和计划的航行，燃料完了，陷在太平洋喊救命。职业生涯如大海航行，职业生涯规划就是基本航线，有了航线，我们就不会偏离目标，更不会迷失方向，才能更加顺利和快速地驶向成功的彼岸。萧伯纳有一句名言：“明白事理的人使自己适应世界，不明白事理的人，硬想使世界适应自己。”职业生涯就是在这种不适应中，调整适应，发展适应的长河中前进的。