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One Minute Mentor: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

How do I know when it's time to move on from a company?

February 8, 2010
Our newest series, One Minute Mentor, presents short and sweet career advice from top media professionals. In our first installment, Jay Lauf, vice president and publisher of The Atlantic, weighs in with insights on his own job moves.

For me, it's a quite unique story. The Atlantic is my longest standing personal subscription, so when they called me while I was the publisher at Wired, there was certainly no reason to leave. It was 2007: The magazine was as hot as could be, as it was ascendant. That caught my ear first, that The Atlantic was a longtime favorite of mine, but then it became an interesting business proposition....

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