90% of today’s professional jobs will disappear. Will your career disappear too? This week we, in part 2 of the GREAT VALUE MIGRATION we examine, why your job isn’t safe & why you shouldn’t care… As always, I invite you to be a part of the process by sharing your insights with me directly at jeff@jeffkaplan.com. SPECIAL NOTE: Thank […]
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We’re taking it up a notch! (See e-book segment below message) Since we began publishing this blog in 2013, we’ve learned so much from your feedback. In fact, your insights and stories were so valuable, we asked ourselves how we can get you more involved. The answer? We’re inviting you to become co-authors and help shape our
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From boardrooms to wakeboards, the world of work is changing and over the next month I’ll be introducing you to a group of people that are changing how we view work, careers and even our definition of success. In this series, we’ll travel the globe to meet a group of top executives that are behaving
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Tools for Tomorrow, Today! Congratulations!!!! Only a few more weeks and you will have successfully navigated another challenging year. Whether you got the project done, won the promotion, got in shape, went back to school or simply made it through the year without taking a swing at your boss… you did it! BRAVO YOU! Remember
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Why 1/3 of Your Team May Be Out to Get You! My experience leading teams has been (select one): An uplifting, collaborative exploration of what’s possible? A soul-crushing, lonely exercise in futility? Unfortunately, your chances of selecting either of these answers is about 50/50. A friend of mine has recently taken the reins of
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Success is exhausting! Why? Because success isn’t enough – we want perfection. We want the unbeaten, perfect season. We want it all and want to break every record along the way. There’s is only room for one at the tippy-top of any endeavor, which is a real math problem in a world with 7.5 billion
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What do former Metropolitan Museum social media executive, Sree Sreenivasan, and sexting ex-Congressman, Anthony Weiner, have in common? About the same age, both were incredibly successful residents of New York: Sree, a highly regarded Columbia School of Journalism professor, Anthony, a seven-term winning politician. Both were the first to occupy the posts that would make
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And other de-motivational words of wisdom… Did you ever have one of those everything-that-could-go-wrong-goes-wrong days? Ever have the kind of day that leaves you thinking that the purpose of our life is only to serve as a warning to others? No one is perfect. Yet, we are inundated, tantalized and teased with perfection, every day,
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My entire career, I’ve been watching. Every interaction, every meeting, every pitch – I’d watch and wonder HOW? HOW can I be more like this person or avoid becoming that person? HOW can I get this or prevent that? HOW can I be successful? The answer was simple. Stop asking HOW and start asking WHY?
The social contract, the implicit agreement that once bound workers to organizations for entire careers, is no more. Off-shoring, right-shoring, belt tightening and a tsunami of technical innovation shifted job demand from trade skills to knowledge work and changed the career landscape in less than a generation. Hierarchical command-and-control structures that simply asked employees to
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