Category: Could This Change Your Life?

Which comes first, the job, or the job we love?

climbing the corporate ladder
enjoy your climb, and never forget what you’re climbing to

 

Which comes first, the job, or the job we love? In my line of work, I seem to see a lot more than most. It’s scary how many unhappy workers there are.

Do we love our job? Have we ever had a job we loved? Are we still looking for work that we would love to do?

Be careful how much we love our job:

  1. We either own our business, or it owns us.
  2. Our boss owns us if we are unwilling to walk away

Yeah, it’s a conundrum. Our job as a great leader is to be remarkable, starting with owning our situation.

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This month jeff noel is encouraging Mid Life Celebration readers to follow all five daily blogs about work life balance. To go in an instant from this money (career) blog to the HQ blog, just click -> go to Next Blog

 

Leaders must develop the ability to master these five unconventional tactics

abe lincoln
whatever you are, be a good one – abe lincoln

 

We must demonstrate mastery of these five unconventional tactics before we graduate from manager to leader:

1. discern the most important point of every critical theory
2. be world class at focus and discipline
3. paint a clear, concise, and compelling picture of the future
4. demonstrate (invisibly) world class habits that deliver world class results
5. be the model for work life balance and wellness

This month jeff noel is encouraging Mid Life Celebration readers to follow all five daily blogs about work life balance. To go in an instant from this money (career) blog to the HQ blog, just click -> go to Next Blog

 

Leadership’s obligation regarding social media

embracing change
the social media ship has set sail, even if it doesn’t look like a ship (photo: Jamie Scott)

 

Leadership’s obligation regarding social media?

Embrace it.

In three weeks, WordPress is releasing it’s second major update for 2012 – WordPress 3.5.

Great leaders look ahead. The customer is embracing social media. That’s the main reason to love it, because you love your customers.

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Note: So here we are , roughly three months after WordPress’s latest efforts to make it easy to use and embrace. Some are ecstatic, some relatively unimpressed. Of course.

Two key reasons our professional life should be completely imbalanced

work life balance
wow, that’s a lot of metaphorical fear and confusion

 

work life balance
what a contrast, how does she do it?

 

Two key reasons our professional life should be completely imbalanced:

  1. the time we spend protecting ourselves from fear and confusion is high
  2. the time we spend being creative, insanely productive, and leading is low

It should be imbalanced, opposite of above.

The two photos are houses across the street from one another, taken during a run while on biz trip.

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