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How do you make sense of your career in a work environment that no longer has any predictable career paths? How do you create stability in a world that has no job security, uncertain markets, threats of terrorism, and a fercely competitive global workforce? How do you balance making a living with making time for family, health, and recreation? How do you develop relationships with mentors when everyone is so busy? How do you keep your skills relevant in a world that moves so quickly that companies are launched, or destroyed, in a day? How do you plan for your fnancial future when you have no idea if your income stream will slow to a trickle, or even dry up completely if you get laid off or go through a diffcult stage of business? Standard career advice would say to get more education, work harder, and make yourself indis- pensable to your organization or customer base. This advice made a lot of sense in the twentieth century. In the twenty-frst century, this advice is incomplete. I have spent the last twenty years coaching thousands of employees, executives, and entrepre- neurs in a variety of industries. I have watched organizations start, grow, shrink, and implode. ChangeThis | 113.01