Your Career: The Art of the Comeback

Symptoms + Cures

Outstanding talent from Hillary Clinton to Mao Tse Tung to Robert Downey, Jr. has been humbled and managed a career rebound.

Here’s one more comeback-in-progress to add to the list: Jonah Lehrer.

Lehrer’s attempt has lessons for anyone who has stumbled, made stupid mistakes, or taken a fall for someone else.

Maybe you.

Lehrer has been publicly psychoanalyzed, editorially flogged, and digitally despised.Read the rest

How Do You Get Back on Track After a Career Detour?

The job that was supposed to work out well, doesn’t.shutterstock_60239728

You parachute out of that job to take another that is not on the road map to a successful career .

Somewhere between Point A and Point C you got detoured to Point Z.

Can you get back on the right road?

Maybe; here’s an example of somebody who got detoured and how they got back on track.… Read the rest