Is Your Expert Status Preventing You From Moving Forward?
One of the challenges some leaders face during career and entrepreneurial transitions, is the fact that they will have to start all over again and lose their expert status. The fallacy of expert status goes hand in hand with a limited view of the possibilities in front of you as well avoiding action completely. Adopting a beginner’s mindset when you are in transition, introduces many possibilities that can help you think through dilemmas; such as how to repackage your wealth of experience, skills and unique perspective or invest your energy doing something worthwhile that you truly enjoy.
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Take the sting out of the painful process of reinvention: 5 ways to take 1 step towards change
Opening quote from Grey’s Anatomy: “The surgical scalpel is made of steel, sterilized, carbonized stainless steel. This is a vast improvement over the first scalpel, which was pretty much a sharp stick. Medicine is constantly reinventing itself. That means surgeons have to keep reinventing themselves, too. There is constant pressure to adapt to changes. It can be a painful process.... [Read more]
Using Life Principles to Do What Matters to You
In Goodbye Career, Hello Success, Randy Komisar says “If you want to land the job of your dreams—even if you want to become a CEO—rid yourself of raw... [Read more]
Part 2: Reinventing Your Career is Innovation on a Personal Level
In part 1, I shared several tactics to help you gain the necessary insights or information to refine your career vision. Part 2 expands on test and learn experiments; and focuses on visioning, revamping your story and executing your vision.
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Part 1: Reinventing Your Career is Innovation on a Personal Level
I spent fifteen years creating innovative solutions, processes, customer experiences and business models for global companies. I really enjoyed what I did, in that I got to create idea, bring those ideas to life and then sell the vision to people who said they wanted change but were not really ready to accept or initiate the change required. Switching industries,... [Read more]
