In this episode, you will listen to an interview with Pamela Slim, author of Escape from Cubicle Nation and the Body of Work.
Pamela Slim is an award-winning author, speaker and business consultant who has been an entrepreneur for eighteen years. Pam is a passionate, engaging speaker with proven advice for building careers in the “New World of Work” – a world filled with economic instability, rapid change, increased demands on leadership, work-life balance pressures and 24-hour a day social media sharing.
Our conversation focused on her last book:
Body of Work: Finding the Thread That Ties Your Story Together.
We discussed:
- Body of Work - definition
- Need for a new type of career advice
- Finding the thread that ties your story together
“You need to tell a story about your own body of work, in a context that will make sense for the work you want to get.” – Pam Slim
- Ethical and effective story telling
“More and more people, by choice or by force, don’t have a straight-line story for their work experience.” – Pam Slim
- Mindset shift needed to succeed in our rapid changing world
“Craft a story that explains your highest values, your strengths, and the value you can provide to the audience you care about influencing.” – Pam Slim
- Importance of defining our roots
- We can have more than one singular life purpose
- Our work recipes and ingredients
- A definition of success
“Don't aim at success–the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.”― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
More about Pam Slim at:
http://pamelaslim.com