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My Single Most Important Lesson About Success
A segment from this summer’s upcoming book, The Workplace Engagement Solution (Career Press) by David Harder: Many people don’t pursue what they really want because, at the core, they believe they will never get the help that brings their vision to life. Once we define a mission, vision […]
Will You Ever Overcome Fear?
In a culture fixated on security we have reinforced the myth that there is something fundamentally inadequate about us when we feel fear. If that is the case, we construct our lives around avoiding fear and as a result, the real and best opportunities don’t even reach our field of […]
Transform Your Social Media Output!
Inspired Social Networking Begins again on Tuesday, December 13 from 4-6 p.m. (PST) or Monday, January 9 with three additional virtual sessions. When Inspired Work dug its way out of the “great recession” we looked at the potential of social media to build engaged and tailored communities […]
Perhaps it is time to make change work for you:
In 1970, the great futurist Alvin Toffler predicted that technology would accelerate the rate of change to such dizzying levels that by the turn of the century most people would be in a perpetual state of shock trying to absorb too much change in too short a period of time. […]
New Behavior for CEOs and Human Resources
BLOW UP HR AGAIN? How to solve a dilemma with the right partner Reading Harvard Business Review and The Atlantic provides an illusion that I possess at least an additional 10 points of IQ. Last year, HRB published, “It’s Time To Blow Up HR and build something […]
The Wake Up Call
Half of our country is waking up in a state of anger and bitterness. The other half elected a new President out of anger and bitterness. Moving beyond this unsettling irony requires that we look that anger directly in the eye and determine how we got here. And, if we […]
Why We Need to Go Back to School!
According to Cathy Sandeen, the Chancellor from University of Wisconsin, today’s average college graduate will change careers (not jobs) four to six times. There are other futurists who predict even more frequent transformation. The new era of work is turning generations of rote cultural behaviors upside down. For […]
Growing Old Disgracfully
A few days ago, someone a few years younger than I blamed ageism for his unemployment. I responded quite strongly, “Well of course you’re not getting a job because you are carrying around that energy.” Resignation is about giving up and it is usually driven by the notion […]
As the World of Work Turns Upside Down – Where Will You Be?
“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.” – Author, Nikos Kazantzaki Transmutation: “The action of changing or the state of being changed into another form.” “The alchemical process of changing base metals into gold.” An extensive recent study called Impacts […]
The One Mistruth That Keeps Us From Success
The Art of Change – A Series Episode One – The One Mistruth That Keeps Us From Success “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” Buddha Over the last 26 years, I have watched thousands of people change their lives – […]