by Mack | | Goal Setting, Motivation, Personal Mastery, Professional Development
This week I taught a one-day workshop entitled How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. It was a career planning and development workshop. I always start with class introductions and the two questions I want to know are: When you were little, what did...
by Mack | | Motivation, Personal Mastery
This morning as I flew home from Hartford, I read an article in the Southwest Airlines magazine about luck. The author, a former contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire talked about his experiences and those of several other “lucky” people. In one example, he...
by Mack | | Professional Development
This past Monday our black lab mix Sonny was hit by a car and killed. I had just let him and the other two dogs, Candy and Rambo, our toy poodles out as I did every morning I was in town. Normally the poodles come right back in and Sonny goes off on his morning rounds...
by Mack | | Goal Setting, Motivation, Personal Mastery, Problem-Solving, Professional Development
This morning as I sat in the airport waiting to board my 5:40 AM flight home, I pulled up the conference app on my phone from the HR conference I just attended and did a breakout session for about 50 HR professionals. I thought it went pretty well. Since I was leaving...
by Mack | | Get Better, Go Full Speed, Goal Setting, Motivation, Personal Mastery, Problem-Solving, Professional Development
Career decisions are among the toughest a human can make. Job changes are easy. It’s a choice between different assignments, salaries, and companies. Often they’re self-imposed, perhaps driven by a new opportunity from a network or a really attractive posting online....
