May 12, 2010
Authenticity, Candidate Management, Personal Branding, Popular Culture, Redundancy, Social Media
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Within the last 24 hours, we’ve seen the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown step down from office. After losing last week’s general election, he will be replaced by the first coalition government in the UK for over 30 years.
Just 18 months ago Brown was playing an impressive role in leading global efforts to manage the financial crisis. Yet when it came to the election, he failed to impress the public.
While there were many policy and political factors that led to his downfall, a key part of his defeat and his exit from politics was due to Gordon Brown himself – his style and approach.
Here are 6 career lessons you can learn from Brown’s election campaign and subsequent downfall:
1. You need both style AND substance
Throughout the election campaign, Brown kept reiterating: “if this campaign is about style over substance – then count me out. I’m a man of substance, not a PR or marketing man.” Tough luck Gordon – like it or not, you’re in the marketing business. We all are. Brown, like many people, failed to actively manage his personal brand.
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May 6, 2010
Authenticity, Career Change, Job Satisfaction, Meaning & Purpose
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Below is a excellent guest article from my friend Colin Hiles.
Colin is one of those rare people who dreamed of a more meaningful and exciting lifestyle – and then went for it.
Originally from the UK and now living in Spain, Colin is the author of the Midlife Maverick blog and runs a series of workshops and retreats (in sunny Spain!) for mid-lifers going through transition.
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How To Transition From Success To Significance
Many of us arrive at mid-life with a degree of success but find our fulfilment flags flying at half-mast leaving us perplexed, confused and unsettled.
As midlifers we can find ourselves well and truly caught up in life’s merry go round of busyness, feeling like we’re being pulled in many directions. We may find our work crosses over into our personal lives. Our boundaries become so skewed. Often we can’t even remember what they were in the first place.
The over whelmed, over worked feeling becomes part of our everyday life and energy to keep going comes from the adrenaline of non-stop “doing”. It’s no wonder that in mid-life we begin to question the meaning of it all and think about the legacy we want to leave.
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