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You are free to write your own career story.

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Habits are what we think and do without thinking.

Balancing career choices against lucky breaks should be realistic. Balancing hard work against sacrifice, same realism.

Bonus insight: Get to a point where you get to do more than you have to do.

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My professional purpose is to help leaders .think .differently

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i exist to help outliers conquer their fears.

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Business travel is not a vacation.

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Ain’t no glamour on the road.

A road warrior knows this as a fact.

No road warrior ever said, i wish i had spent more time on a plane.

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Met your Mom in an interview.

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Been at least a decade since i interviewed someone.

Like riding a bike.

Yesterday‘s post here at junglejeff.net shared a bunch of questions that i asked yesterday in my first interview since 2014.

It was fun.

Insightful.

Important.

The candidate’s answers sounded too perfect.

i texted the CEO to tell him i would like to do a second interview.

Happy present moment.

Yee-haa!

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Daring to be different looks good on paper and in dreams. Being different makes you vulnerable to criticism and judgement.

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A client’s message: “Tomorrow the bullseye would be for you to ask some questions that would tease out how this person authentically thinks about culture.”

Some question brainstorming to add to an already .think .different set of C-Level candidate questions:

Where did you grow up? What was your life like before becoming a Huskie? Why Seattle?

What do you do for fun, hobbies?

What’s your favorite place in the world? Why?

Where do you see yourself in 30 years?

How will you describe yourself to new employees? Direct reports? Peers?

Who are your professional partners? Tell me what you know about them.

2 Post it notes activity.

How do you frame up creativity and innovation to your organizations?

How do you frame up training and development to your organizations?

How do you explain the difference between a vision statement and a vision?

Tell me what you know about the CEO.

Tell me what you know about me.

What is the meaning of life?

When does the workday begin?

Tell me about work life balance.

Talk to me about risk taking what are some of the biggest risks you took and why?

Who was your favorite leader? Why? How did they develop you?

Have you, or could you, teach an organization about culture, a.k.a. organizational vibrancy? What would your executive summary be?

Why become Company’s CEO?

What’s your superpower?

How do you explain the difference between a manager and a leader?

What are some things that you do that when you do them you never think about the clock?

When’s your funeral?

Any questions?

i asked the current CEO for this structure: You, 15 mins, me 15 mins, you 15 mins. He replied he’s already spoken to the COO candidate three times. Immediately i thought, “When were you gonna tell me that?”

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