Being proactive is the key to moving your career agendas ahead. Successful careers are the result of people having the ability to move agendas forward.

In this day and age, when we can no longer rely on lifetime tenure or a guaranteed career path, the crooked career path, described by Pamela Weinsaft in a recent piece about Kathleen Weslock head of HR at SunGard, may prove to be a good model for many.