In Charles Murray’s fine book Coming Apart, he describes increasing bifurcation of wealth by education.  The group of people on the leading edge of the right side of that curve deal better with the uncertainty and ambiguity, and roll with the challenges by changing.  It is the people with less education on the left side of the distribution curve that are really suffering because they have no clue what is required, and no one is necessarily teaching them how to deal with it. Special interventions like Career Coaching can be a small and constructive first step.  The new unspoken rules about getting jobs in our new economy are constantly changing and promises well only for the minority of people, both blue and white collar, who know how to access the right training, education and skills and bodes not so well for the bulk of our population.  That is why I believe there will be no significant middle class in the future as we move back into a “class” oriented culture unless we are able to find better ways to educate a majority of people on the tools and skills needed to find and keep a series of good jobs throughout their careers.

I was inspired by Simon Sinek’s TED talk on “How Great Leaders Inspire Action” and his book, Start with Why, to explain the Why of Career Coaching: