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Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
Mick Quinn thinks that career experts make too much of career tracks. When he was building his career, friends, teachers and mentors drove home their importance. The big message was, “Get on the right career track and one day you’ll get the power job you’ve always wanted.”
Quinn didn’t buy it. And it’s a good thing, too, because this former programmer/IT headhunter/entrepreneur--who launched a half dozen successful online businesses and has just completed his first book, Power and Grace: the Wisdom of Awakening--says he wouldn’t be where he is today if he had listened to all the formula career advice that was dished out to him.
Endorsing the timeless teaching of Buddha and other Eastern sages, Quinn’s book is also about finding a path--not a defined career path, but a richer spiritual one that leads to personal fulfillment and achievement rather than wealth and power.
After a star-studded career of job hopping, Quinn says, he got where he is today not by following a career track but by cross-training. But he’s not alone. He insists that thousands of others have adopted the same strategy.
Most of the successful people Quinn’s observed over his 20-plus-year career have cross-trained themselves in skills they deemed essential for moving up the career ladder. More often than not, …
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