Posts by Joe Mechlinski

November 6, 2018 Joe Mechlinski

Engagement Requires Constant Renewal

Although technological changes are coming quickly, the truth is that we’re still a long way from fully automated businesses, even if technological advances have come at the expense of many jobs. For the foreseeable future, people...

October 23, 2018 Joe Mechlinski

Facing The Future with an Open Mind

We need to face the future with an open mind. The wrong response to a changing world, where technology will alter or eliminate many jobs, is to turn fatalistic. The wrong response would be to think that we and our actions are...

October 22, 2018 Joe Mechlinski

A Lesson From Millennials on Purpose-Driven Work

When people are not engaged at work, it's because their work doesn't provide them with meaning. It used to be that you needed to work at whatever job you could get in order to pay for your basic needs. But today, with most of...

September 25, 2018 Joe Mechlinski

23 Bestselling Books That Will Inspire You To Change The World (Fall 2018)

Shift The Work was recently named a 2x bestseller by The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. As an author committed to the belief that by shifting the work world, we can transform the real world, this recognition added fuel to...

September 20, 2018 Joe Mechlinski

How Technology Will Change the Workplace

As workers, no matter our current level of employment, we must keep an open mind to the possibility of reinvention. The rapid rise of technology has already led to disruption in a slew of professions. In some cases, it has...

May 22, 2018 Joe Mechlinski

3 Ways to Achieve Financial Freedom

Personal finance is just different when you’re an entrepreneur. So is being a partner, a parent, a friend, a sibling, a daughter, a son… you get the point. Garrett Gunderson gets this. As a New York Times bestselling...

May 21, 2018 Joe Mechlinski

How to Become an Even Better Entrepreneur

When Mike McDevitt, Founder and CEO of Terra's Kitchen, was a boy, he didn't dream of starting a meal-preparation company. But he did regularly enjoy home-cooked meals with his family. These experiences established incredible...

May 16, 2018 Joe Mechlinski

Get Ready to Hustle Hard and Never Settle With Mario Armstrong

This episode of Shift Happens, featuring two-time Emmy award winner Mario Armstrong, will have you rethinking “normal.” Think the number one skill a talk show host needs to possess is conversation skills? Think the road to...

May 16, 2018 Joe Mechlinski

How to Get Happy (and Stay Happy) in Less Than 60 Minutes

“Happiness is not out there, it’s in you.” Undergrad in health science and health promotion, CHECK. Research specialization in childhood obesity, CHECK. A masters degree in child and youth health, CHECK. A pHD in health...