Have you ever asked yourself, "Is this it?"Maybe you're trapped in a dead-end job that you're afraid to leave. Or maybe you already have a good job-one that gives you room to grow and exercise your talents-but you don't really feel like you're doing your best work. Your life is plain vanilla, yet you know in your heart that you can be a triple scoop banana split. You just don't know how to make that leap.Welcome to a Career Transition Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us today: Rick Smith, the bestselling author of The Leap: How 3 Simple Changes Can Propel Your Career from Good to Great, He is the co-author of the Wall Street Journal and Business Week bestseller The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers, which remains one of the top-selling professional career books of all time.A serial entrepreneur, Rick is the creator of the Primary Color Assessment, and the founding CEO of World 50, cited as one of the world’s most influential senior executive networking companies.Questions for Rick Smith:I must admit when I first saw the title of your book I thought "yeah right, another feel good book with miracle cures." But to my surprise and delight there’s meat on this bone!Give us the back-story Rick, how did The Leap come about?In reading your story about Spencer Stuart, I thought about Paul Kahn (AT&T Universal Card Service) - first no-fee card -- inventive, out-of-the-box -- UCS was a home run, like your book The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers was a home runI love your story about w50 (no this is not a lubricant) - and the CMO of Kodak, can you share that with us?The importance of Force MultipliersHow do you respond to people who say you were “just real lucky.”One story that really aligns the Leap concept is Brad Margus - can you share some of his story with us?One more story that many people are living today -- your experience from going through batteries of test like Myers-Briggs with an outplacement firm... you write” I had discovered almost nothing useful about the most important question in my life at that point: where do I take my career?”There’s a free online assessment Rick provides called the Primary Color Analyzer - how was this developed?According to Rick Smith's Primary Color Analyzer, I'm a Pink Cadillac - Management Maven (I feel like Mary Kay, Rick) 86% curiosity 20% execution 87% leadership - so now what? How do I use this information?

[ Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:23:14 -0400 ]

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