The Action Catalyst
REMASTERED: Body of Work, with Pamela Slim (Careers, Sales, Storytelling, Business)
Tue, 08 Oct 2024
Author, speaker, and certification expert Pamela Slim addresses the “new world of work”, including what makes it so unpredictable, what is considered THE meta skill throughout all of history, and how to talk to our kids about what we do professionally.
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Even huge institutions that we thought would never fail can fail. And that which we consider to be even a solid, respectable career is not really anything that we can count on.
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One of the nicest people in the world, Pamela Slim. And if you've been in the world of blogs and social media for any amount of time, surely you know Pamela. She is an award-winning author, coach, speaker, and has kind of an interesting story. And her book is called Body of Work.
And it gives sort of a fresh perspective on the skills required in the new world of work from both corporate to nonprofit to small business to salespeople to all the above. Pamela, thanks for being on the show.
Well, thank you so much for having me. I am delighted to be here.
So you say that the quote unquote world of work is no longer predictable.
Absolutely. I know salespeople of all people in the world know this because often sales folks are the ones that are right there, you know, talking to customers and working on a deal for a long time and having it fall through at the last minute because, you know, your key contact gets laid off or redeployed somewhere else.
And I've been for about the past 20 years working in the world of business, always on the human side. And as early as the 90s, I was noticing trends as we started to see more waves of layoffs and reorganizations. But I think things really started to pick up steam, especially in 2008, when we all experienced the a huge economic catastrophe that really rallied around the globe.
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