The Career You’ll Love

As the year and the decade draw to a close, I just wanted to express my gratitude for all the help I’ve received this year.   It’s been tumultuous, the future is uncertain, and depression and fear still reign over the economy.

Despite all that, I’ve been blessed with a great number of friends and supporters, a wonderful number of opportunities, and the love of my family.  If you’re going to lose your job and head off into a new career, it’s hard to ask for more.

Thank you.

Now let’s get to work on making 2010 a much better place!

When I was growing up as a child in the 1960s, I thought about the upcoming turn of the century – 2000 seemed so impossibly far away.  But here we are, ten years AFTER entering this new millennium, and it’s disappeared so quickly!

Ten years I was employed in Hewlett-Packard, just beginning to discover this new emerging field called coaching.  I was managing a team that was embroiled in the whole Y2K issue, worried that all our hard preparation might not have been enough to ward off customer problems on January 1st.  As it turns out, things went remarkably well.

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I was in a networking meeting this morning with HR people who are job-hunting, and I had a chance to do an exercise with them that you might find useful.

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I had a great discussion with a group of leaders today, about how to unleash the hidden potential within their organization.  Here’s the basic idea.

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