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		<title>Lessons Learned: Tom Ford&#8217;s Parallel Career as Designer &#038; Director</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stories about people doing things they have never done before, always inspire me. Yesterday on Oprah, Tom Ford talked about his directorial debut, A Single Man. When Ford left Gucci, he realized the material side of the world had pulled him away from his spiritual side. Reading A Single Man for a second time, Ford [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2010/03/03/lessons-learned-tom-fords-parallel-career-as-designer-director/</link>
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		<title>Is Your Expert Status Preventing You From Moving Forward?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2010/02/23/is-your-expert-status-preventing-you-from-moving-forward/</link>
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		<title>Take the sting out of the painful process of reinvention: 5 ways to take 1 step towards change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2010/02/17/take-the-sting-out-of-the-painful-process-of-reinvention-5-ways-to-take-1-step-towards-change/</link>
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		<title>Using Life Principles to Do What Matters to You</title>
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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 ambition. Avoid promotions that make perfect sense. Accept work based on friendship alone. Trust your gut. Then watch what happens: prosperity of the heart, soul, and—yes—the wallet.”
Sounds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/10/07/using-life-principles-to-do-what-matters-to-you/</link>
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		<title>Part 2: Reinventing Your Career is Innovation on a Personal Level</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
3. In Aerialist, Katrin Ley from Reebok, reinforces the importance of partnering with the right expert, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/09/28/part-2-reinventing-your-career-is-innovation-on-a-personal-level/</link>
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		<title>Part 1: Reinventing Your Career is Innovation on a Personal Level</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/09/25/part-1-reinventing-your-career-is-innovation-on-a-personal-level/</link>
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		<title>Lessons Learned: Ursula Burns&#8217; Path to CEO</title>
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At the Most Powerful Women Summit,  when asked how she would tag herself, Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox, responded the “Groomed CEO”. With roughly 28 years of experience there is no doubt that Ursula Burns not only loves Xerox but created her own path to prepare for this seat. Burns led Xerox through many stages of transition, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/09/23/lessons-learned-ursula-burns-path-to-ceo/</link>
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		<title>Lessons Learned from Anne Mulcahy: Managing a Seamless Transition</title>
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One of the dilemmas some of my clients and readers face is letting go and moving forward. Whether it is a project that went awry, a negative performance review, the experience of working with a mismatched manager, a lay-off or your teams&#8217; lack of confidence in your ability to deliver, letting go of these career [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/09/21/managing-a-seamless-transition/</link>
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		<title>Career Transitions: From Sales to Sauce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Second Acts, Dawn Fallik over at WSJ.com profiles Jim Barbour in    “A Former Sales Rep Concocts Fresh Start With Barbecue Sauce.” A quick look at Barbour’s career history and you will see that he had a short stint in stockbroking, then spent several years in sales with great companies such as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/08/05/career-transitions-from-sales-to-sauce/</link>
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		<title>Lessons Learned From Successful Career Switchers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ “We change when the pain to change is less than the pain to remain as we are.” - Ed Foreman
The San Francisco Chronicle recently profiled a former investment banker, a national sales director and an executive search specialist who have all transitioned successfully in Successful second acts: a career change can lead to greater job [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/07/15/lessons-learned-from-successful-career-switchers/</link>
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