How do you get it? Think of the next couple of years. Think of if everything went perfectly - what would have to happen? management book, Scaling Up Excellence, Stanford professors Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao talk about using a pre-mortem to identify how projects might go better or worse than expected. In a pre-mortem, you assume that a project (in this case, your next career move) is wildly successful. Then you brainstorm on all the conditions (e.g., people who helped, skills you relied on) that made this possible (plan with targets - skills to get you to your targets, sponsors to help you spot the gaps & coach you etc