The chickens have come to roost, as my grandfather used to say. The insane practices around bundling loans that never should have been made, along with our own greed, have led to a massive crisis internationally. I was first warned of this a year ago by some Australian investors but it’s still shocking to see [...]

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What’s natural can often look strange
With the latest financial disaster still going on and the Canadians predicting another six months before we even get close to what will pass for the bottom, it’s a good time to rehash something that will help you be as successful as possible. Nothing can guarantee success, but the [...]

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All transitions from one level of mental capability to the next can be hard. For high-potentials, who go through more transitions than normal people, they can be down right terrifying because they feel like a complete emotional breakdown.

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For Friday, here’s “Seven Distinct Paths of Decision and Action” by Warren Kinston and Jimmy Algie from 1989. This paper describes the seven different approaches to decision-making, but note that it’s really about action.

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I recently had an exchange in another site with “Marcy”, who talked about some judgments that she had about some of her previous therapists who didn’t fit with her. (One of her old therapists, with whom she did good work, wrote a book with Warren Rule. I think this says a lot about [...]

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t being August, I thought it a good time reiterate the most useful piece of coaching I can give you: do you what you’re good at doing.

It seems so simple that feels almost insulting to receive as advice: Do what you’re good at. It seems like such a truism.

Except that so many high potentials just don’t see it.

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There’s a reason why I talk about so many different ways of looking at your career, things like Levels of Work, the 7 Languages of Achievement, domains of work, and even personality differences. It’s all about helping you stop making career decisions that have almost no chance of working. For you.
Because, you see, what’s risky [...]

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Recently, Vincent asked the following in a comment to “A Brief Thanks for the Chance to Complain About Work“:

“Do the work to get work that fits.”
How do I figure out which work fits me best. In every job I’m carving for another opportunity, another type of job, another way of life.
Which questions do I have [...]

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Lots of you are Mode 6 or higher and getting frustrated in your efforts to provide the right résumé for executive positions.
“What is does an executive résumé look like?” people ask me. “Do you even know?”
Of course I do. And I will illustrate it with a story I saw on television several years ago.

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Did you know that if you have more capacity to do work than the people you work with, they’ll oftentimes respond by addressing things to you even though you’re not the boss?
I’m busy putting the finishing touches on the launch of a new program Overachievers or Adult Underachievers, people who are not doing a [...]

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