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and your actions, as long as you master
the potentially toxic emotional impulses that can cloud your best judgment
during decision making, reasoning, and
crunch time."
Now we are not Mario Lopez or
Nancy O'Dell, and most of us are not sitting in makeup, in front of cameras, or
jockeying for interviews and ratings for
most of our day. Sometimes, as scien-Lionel Claris and Donna Riley
tists and engineers, our days are much
quieter and spent in relative solitude
with our work-but still, it is just as
important to respect the choices that
present themselves each day. Regardless of profession, understanding how
Lindner offers advice to engineers
to communicate effectively and make
conscious, impactful decisions is critical
When it comes to achieving what Ken
in order to achieve professional success.
Lindner calls "career gold," the ball, as
I sat down with Ken Lindner to ask
they say, is in your court, but not in
how he would he guide those in the scithe way you may think. It's not just the
ence, technology, engineering, and
rare, clutch decisions that matter.
Reaching professional success is
math fields through some comabout making the right decimon workplace situations.
An electrical engineer is
sions, large and small, day in
asked to cover for a coworkand day out, so that you are
er who is unexpectedly out
consistently forging a career
on leave. She works hard
path that is in true alignto stay on top of her heavy
ment with your goals.
workload but fails to do
And if Lindner is giving
Ken Lindner
either job well. Even though
out career advice, you should
she has done her best to step up to the
listen. For the last 30 years, Lindner,
plate, her manager gives her a negaauthor of Your Killer Emotions: The 7
tive review for missing some critical
Steps to Mastering the Toxic Emotions,
deadlines. Angry, the engineer imagines
Urges, and Impulses That Sabotage You
walking into her manager's office and
(Greenleaf Press, 2013), has run what is
handing in her resignation.
arguably the most well-respected news
In this situation, Lindner says,
and hosting agency in the country. He
"You're not going to do well, if you're
has represented and helped develop the
not meeting anybody's expectations." To
careers of some of the biggest names in
convey his point, he tells a story about a
broadcast journalism, including Matt
woman that was hired as an anchor at a
Lauer, Lester Holt, Mario Lopez, Robin
television station.
Meade, Megyn Kelly, Sam Champion,
"She got there, and they loved her,"
Tom Bergeron, Shepard Smith, and
Lindner says. "They thought she looked
Nancy O'Dell.
great and had everything going for her.
Lindner, whose honors thesis at
Then one day without conferring with
Harvard explored the science of deciany of her managers, she went to New
sion making, says that although there
York, purchased some Brooks Brothers
are things in life you can control and
suits, and got her hair cut. Within a day,
some things you cannot, "you can conthe general manager called me and said,
trol your reasoning and evaluative pro'What the heck did your client do? She
cesses, and you can control your choices
bought some old lady suits; she got an
old lady haircut. She's so not what I'm
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looking for anymore. What possessed
Date of publication: 8 May 2013
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