The one skill every professional needs

He didn’t walk away from Google because things were going badly. He walked away after proving he could build a $2 billion program inside a giant company, and realizing he no longer knew how much of the success was him and how much was the logo on his badge. The turning point came around his own family’s dinner table, watching everyone cycle through different diets while big food brands were still relying on slow, occasional surveys to guess what people wanted. What worked was bringing one core principle from Google. His biggest advice to anyone itching to leave corporate life isn’t about market timing or funding. Read more at entrepreneur.com.