Gurley evaluated career paths by asking if he could see himself doing the job thirty years later.
“And you can look around the org and see the people that have been in that type of job that long and look at their life and just say, is that something I would enjoy?”
Gurley evaluated his Compaq career by asking if he wanted to be like the thirty-year engineers he saw.
“I said to myself, do I see myself here thirty years from now? And there were people in the building that had been engineers for thirty years, so I could, you know, I could I could get a perspective on it by just thinking, do I wanna be them?”
Gurley developed a mental exercise asking himself if he saw himself in the same role thirty years later.
“I developed this mental exercise that I didn't realize I was doing, but at the time, but I said to myself, well, a couple years in, we started a third project, looked like the second project, looked like the first project.”
“I, I one day thought to myself, do I see myself doing this thirty years from now?”
Gurley describes mental exercise asking if he sees himself doing current job thirty years from now.
“I had a mental exercise that I did in my first two stops in my career, where a couple of years in, said, Do I see myself doing this thirty years from now?”