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Five Tips to Change Your Career
August 9, 2013
Do you read the Dallas Morning News “Five” column? In this popular column by staff writer Hanah Cho, local experts provide five recommendations on a topic useful to small business owners and individuals. I provided my five ways to change or refocus your career. They were: Recognize Your Feelings Look Inward Look Outward Look Forward
Read ArticleDoes Your Brand Have an ECHO? Brand Echonomics by Jeff Brady
July 15, 2013
As many of you may know I am an avid reader. I will sit down with my pen, paper and a book and start to read and write. I take notes about every book I read. This helps me to recall them easier, but also serves as a reminder of the things I need to
Read ArticleDo You Have Worklife Wisdom? As Defined by Friends of CDA
June 10, 2013
What is your definition of wisdom? How do you define this life’s goal we are all seeking? A trait I have developed with a bit of my wisdom gained from experience is that I have a sharp crap detector! I seem to have a knack for detecting and questioning these rules and absolutes that we’re
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Is Our Workplace a Killer?
April 11, 2013
Career Chaos is Killing Women (and Men) Women, who have always lived longer than men in the past, are now dying younger than before. Men die 10 years earlier than Women and NOW the Female Life Span is falling! Is this work world now killing both men and women alike? Women who have highly demanding
Read ArticleAre We Ready to Fight the Next War = The JOBS War?
March 16, 2013
Finding a job is a war! It is not getting easier; it is getting harder and more difficult. Finding the right job that you can pursue with a passion, while having meaning and money is even more difficult. This is the focus of my work with my career clients at Career Design Associates, Inc., and
Read ArticleTips for Entering the Age of Innovation
March 4, 2013
Our workworld is moving rapidly into the Age of Innovation! The key to career success today is quite different from what we were taught in the past. It is not stability and specialization in one field, and the “40 year Womb to Tomb” but flexibility with expertise, creativity and the ability to cross borders and
Read ArticleRecession Proof Your Coaching Career
February 18, 2013
During my three decades as a career coach in Dallas – helping adults replace the conventional personality Type A or Type B with the Type CC (the Career Change Catalyst) – I have experienced an infinite number of “dark nights” of recession similar to our current one. I have survived and thrived despite crisis changes
Read ArticleAre you happy? Do you have “Ikigai”?
March 15, 2012
One of my goals for a decade has been to connect the Science of Chaos and Complexity from physics to the rapidly developing Science of Well Being from the recent focus on Positive Psychology. An article “Ikigai and Mortality” by Christopher Peterson, Ph.D., September 17, 2008, published in Psychology Today certainly validates the necessity to
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Daniel Pink, Flip and what I “Crone-like” labeled “Crap in the Workplace”!
March 8, 2012
FLIP: 16 Counter Intuitive Ideas About Motivation, Innovation, and Leadership Daniel H. Pink, Author, Free Agent Nation, A Whole New Mind and Drive has written a collection called FLIP: 16 Counter Intuitive Ideas About Motivation, Innovation, and Leadership. It’s a quick read of much of what I have rather “crone like”- labeled “crap in the
Read Article? Future ? 2045: Singularity – New World/Concept Gaining Center Stage??
February 18, 2011
2045: The Year Man Become Immortal from Time Magazine Feb. 21, 2011: “sin•gu•lar•i•ty n: The moment when technological change becomes so rapid and profound, it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history” If you think it’s absurd to say that by 2045 a computer can solve some problems better than humans, do read
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