In regards to planning your career, you need to treat it (your career) just like a business.

Your career is your business.

Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.

Walking on a road without seeing and planning for what's down the road will almost certainly catch you off-guard and may turn out to be a harsh blow, sometime or other.

It was definitely a rare situation where a career had started and ended simultaneously on a very high note.

Information is the key to success, anywhere and everywhere. Right information matters the most. This applies to your work place too.