Coronavirus and Your Job Search
My full-time job is to help students at The King’s College launch their careers. So I’ve been paying attention to how this Coronavirus pause is going to be affecting their job search. This is one of...
View ArticleWhat Results Are Expected of You?
A key question for staying on track with your work is this: what are the results expected of me? Each week, each quarter, and each month? You need to have a general answer for this, and then you need...
View ArticleMaintaining Motivation While Remote
Any chance you’ve been struggling with motivation after going remote? You might be helped by the interview I did on motivation with King’s 101 for students of The King’s College. The principles are...
View ArticleThis is a Time to Innovate the Way We Get Work Done
Jack Welch was right: we live in a time of dazzling innovation. Not just in terms of cool products and solutions to engineering problems, but also in terms of how we get work done. Now this is even...
View ArticleOvercoming a Whacking — Like the Impact of Coronavirus on the Economy
In his book The Real Life MBA, Jack Welch has a great chapter called “Overcoming a Whacking.” This is relevant to how businesses can start to recover from the economic pause created by the pandemic....
View ArticleAn Interview on Coronavirus and Productivity
A few weeks ago Daniel Kaufman, one of the members of our team, had the idea of sharing a behind the scenes look at what each of us is doing during this unique season. He created a set of interview...
View ArticleIs Calling Some Jobs Essential a Helpful Way of Speaking?
Yesterday the governor of my state, Andrew Cuomo, said this: You want to go to work? Go take a job as an essential worker. As someone who works professionally in the field of career development, I have...
View ArticleMinistry Roundtable Discussion on the Pandemic with Challies, Heerema,...
Last week Matt Heerema (founder of Mere Agency and former web developer at Desiring God) organized a Zoom discussion where I got to talk about the global coronavirus shutdown with some of the leading...
View ArticleJob Searching During the Coronavirus Economy
At least 30 million have become unemployed since mid-March. Suddenly, job searching is very relevant. To help seniors at The King’s College who are launching their careers in the midst of these...
View ArticleHow to Learn Anything…Fast
This is a great message by Josh Kaufman, best-selling author of The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business. The encouraging upshot is that acquiring basic proficiency in a skill does not have to...
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