179: Making Radical Career Changes with Dr. Allan Mink
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 13 July 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Allan Mink shares his experiences in making career pivots and best practices on adapting to radical change.
You’ll Learn:
1) The argument for radical career changes
2) The importance of personal relationships in making a successful pivot
3) How to effectively manage your skill gaps when you pivot
About Allan
Dr. Allan Mink teaches Management, Information, and Systems as an Adjunct Professor at American University’s Kogod Graduate School of Business. Dr. Mink is the Managing Director for Systems Spirit, a boutique consulting team influential in connecting technology firms with the needs of the Department of Defense. Dr. Mink previously served as the business growth lead for SRA International’s largest business unit; Vice President, Defense and Intelligence for Unisys Corporation; and COO/CTO of the Systems and Software Consortium. Al retired from the United States Air Force as a Colonel and decorated combat pilot. His final assignment was at Headquarters Air Force, leading the USAF’s portfolio of thirteen IT Initiatives for what’s now the A6/CIO. He is an Advisory Board Member of the MIT Enterprise Forum, which informs, advises, and coaches technology entrepreneurs to start and grow firms with world-changing impact.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Sponsor: TextExpander
- Article: 15 Habits of self-made millionaires
- Article: The Adventures of an IT Leader by Richard Nolan
- Book: For Your Improvement by Heather Barnfield and Michael Lombardo
- Book: The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 179 with Dr. |
| 0:26.3 | Alan Mink. Here the good doctor and colonel shared insights from his career |
| 0:31.7 | journey and wisdom |
| 0:32.8 | when it comes to making radical job and career shifts. |
| 0:36.9 | So you're gonna learn, one, the argument for making radical career changes, |
| 0:41.2 | two, the importance of personal relationships in making that successful pivot, |
| 0:45.8 | and three, how to effectively manage your skill gaps when you do the pivot. |
| 0:50.9 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we reference here. the And while you're at awesome at your job |
| 1:02.8 | dot com, I recommend you check out some of our handy resources. |
| 1:05.9 | One I'd point you to is our 10 days to winning at work free email course. |
| 1:10.4 | This is a selection of the most bite size and easy fun actionable tidbits I share in my enhanced thinking and collaboration training programs. |
| 1:20.0 | So you can use the same approaches to slash through waste at work, |
| 1:24.0 | free up some time for brilliant strategic thoughts |
| 1:26.9 | or just getting home early, whatever you need to do. |
| 1:29.0 | So that's over there at awesome at your job. |
| 1:30.6 | com. |
| 1:31.4 | The 10 Days to Winning at Work email course. |
| 1:34.0 | Now here's Al's story. |
| 1:36.0 | Dr. Alan Mink teaches management, information, and systems as an adjunct professor at American |
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