by Dr. Helen Harkness | Jun 10, 2013 | Blog, Career Articles
What is your definition of wisdom? How do you define this life’s goal we are all seeking? A trait I have developed with a bit of my wisdom gained from experience is that I have a sharp crap detector! I seem to have a knack for detecting and questioning these rules and...
by Dr. Helen Harkness | Apr 11, 2013 | Blog, Career Articles
Career Chaos is Killing Women (and Men) Women, who have always lived longer than men in the past, are now dying younger than before. Men die 10 years earlier than Women and NOW the Female Life Span is falling! Is this work world now killing both men and women alike?... by Dr. Helen Harkness | Mar 16, 2013 | Blog, Career Articles
Finding a job is a war! It is not getting easier; it is getting harder and more difficult. Finding the right job that you can pursue with a passion, while having meaning and money is even more difficult. This is the focus of my work with my career clients at Career... by Dr. Helen Harkness | Mar 4, 2013 | Blog, Career Articles
Our workworld is moving rapidly into the Age of Innovation! The key to career success today is quite different from what we were taught in the past. It is not stability and specialization in one field, and the “40 year Womb to Tomb” but flexibility with expertise,... by Dr. Helen Harkness | Feb 18, 2013 | Blog, Career Articles
During my three decades as a career coach in Dallas – helping adults replace the conventional personality Type A or Type B with the Type CC (the Career Change Catalyst) – I have experienced an infinite number of “dark nights” of recession similar to our current one. I... by Dr. Helen Harkness | Mar 15, 2012 | Blog, Career Articles
One of my goals for a decade has been to connect the Science of Chaos and Complexity from physics to the rapidly developing Science of Well Being from the recent focus on Positive Psychology. An article “Ikigai and Mortality” by Christopher Peterson, Ph.D., September...
by Dr. Helen Harkness | Mar 8, 2012 | Blog, Career Articles
FLIP: 16 Counter Intuitive Ideas About Motivation, Innovation, and Leadership Daniel H. Pink, Author, Free Agent Nation, A Whole New Mind and Drive has written a collection called FLIP: 16 Counter Intuitive Ideas About Motivation, Innovation, and Leadership. It’s a... by Dr. Helen Harkness | Feb 18, 2011 | Blog, Career Articles
2045: The Year Man Become Immortal from Time Magazine Feb. 21, 2011: “sin•gu•lar•i•ty n: The moment when technological change becomes so rapid and profound, it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history” If you think it’s absurd to say that by 2045 a computer... by Dr. Helen Harkness | Nov 8, 2010 | Blog, Career Articles
In 1974, a book by Frederic Flach, M.D., The Secret Strength of Depression, was important to me in understanding how to move through what was seemingly the unrelenting chaos of a “dark night of the soul”. In his later book Resilience, he is focusing on the necessity...
by Dr. Helen Harkness | Oct 10, 2010 | Blog, Career Articles
The 21st Century Yo-Yo Career Model Adults who come in to see me for career coaching often say that feel like their career is on a treadmill going nowhere fast or their career feels like a roller coaster ride. One day everything is going up and then the next day with...
