Are 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
Read ArticleAre you experiencing a “Dark Night of the Soul”?
November 8, 2010
In 1974, a book by Frederic Flach, M.D., The Secret Strength of Depression, was important to me in understanding how to move through what was seemingly the unrelenting chaos of a “dark night of the soul”. In his later book Resilience, he is focusing on the necessity of developing resilience to deal with our world,
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Get Off the Career Treadmill: The Yo Yo Career Model Equals Career Success!
October 10, 2010
The 21st Century Yo-Yo Career Model Adults who come in to see me for career coaching often say that feel like their career is on a treadmill going nowhere fast or their career feels like a roller coaster ride. One day everything is going up and then the next day with no warning – it’s
Read ArticleHow to Negotiate Your Salary
June 22, 2010
To get ready to land that new job or position, ideally you “do your homework.” This includes updating and fine-tuning your resumé, learning about the companies you’ll target and interview with, and discovering how to best present yourself in an interview. It’s also searching to find a position’s salary range before you apply for the
Read ArticleMark Twain Quotes and What they Mean to Me
June 7, 2010
When I was rapidly barreling down the academic highway to reach the Ph.D. destination, I spent one entire semester studying Mark Twain. He was, and still is considered “the first” and most important American writer. And indeed, he’s revered throughout the world! As a sixth grader in the West Virginia mountains, I was totally connected
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