Ken Lindner - Career Choreography: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Finding the Right Job and Achieving Huge Success and Happiness

PRAISE FOR

CAREER CHOREOGRAPHY

Ken Lindners brilliant strategies have certainly helped shape and grow my career. Now, he shares his wonderful insights with you in his new book, Career Choreography.

Mario Lopez, American host, actor, author, producer

Career Choreography is exactly what people need right now! This book is magic! Ken Lindner has been choreographing my career at NBC News, MSNBC, and now CNN Headline News for over a decade with his one-of-a-kind-technique. At a time when so many crave a clear job and career direction, Kens spot-on professional strategies and steps are invaluable for everyone who wants a fulfilling job and professional path. No one develops careers and crafts successful strategies like Ken Lindner.

Lynn Smith,Headline News anchor and author

Ken Lindner has devoted his career to helping people find, secure, and thrive in the jobs they covet. His Career Choreography strategies are a masterful roadmap to success.

Philip D. M. de Picciotto, founder and president, Octagon
Sports and Entertainment Network

Every copy of Career Choreography should be wrapped with a big, green bow becausemake no mistakeit is a gift to anyone working to achieve the kind of success most only dream of. Ken Lindner not only rewrites the old-school definition of success to include inner happiness and fulfillment, which have incredibly valuable currencies of their own, but then takes us to the yellow brick road and choreographs the journey for us. No matter what industry you hope to conquer, Career Choreography will give you the universal steps that will get you dancing to the top.

Liz Claman, host of The Claman Countdown on the
Fox Business Network and author

Ken Lindner has an extraordinary talent and track record for creating successful careers for his clients. Trust the advice of the best career developer in the business! I speak from many wonderful years of positive experience with Ken. If you want to join or re-join the workforce in a fulfilling and rewarding position, thats suited to you and your special talents, Career Choreography is a must-read!

Ernie Anastos, Emmy Awardwinning
NYC television news icon and author

I am the master of my fate and captain of my soul are the Invictus words of William Ernest Henley that provide hope for all of us in the journey of our lives and careers. Ken Lindners new, masterful book, Career Choreography, is an outstanding tool that confers upon each of us the essential concepts and techniques that facilitate success in career and life. Over his illustrious career, Ken has been the agent to hundreds of the most successful TV news anchors and personalities. He is the agent of change, omnipresent teacher, mentor, and consultant that helps all of us develop our mission, vision, and concise and focused plans. Career Choreography is a must-read that depicts real-life examples and stories that illuminate tactics and strategies that we all can use in each of our playbooks.

Bert R. Mandelbaum, MD DHL (hon), co-chair of medical affairs,
Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute and author of
The Win Within: Capturing Your Victorious Spirit

Ive depended on Ken Lindners advice and career consultation for a quarter of a century! Like shoe-leather reporting, his Career Choreography values hard work, discipline, and delayed gratification. But his emphasis on finding the right job fit was the secret sauce that pointed me in the direction of my dreams and a fulfilling career bringing you the morning news!

Robin Meade, anchor, Morning Express
with Robin Meade on HLN

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and Broadcasters in the New Age of Broadcasting,
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Some of the stories, cases, and examples in this book are entirely fictional, and others have been fictionalized and altered to protect the privacy of the individuals involved (and their families). Such fictional or fictionalized stories, cases, and examples are not meant to portray any particular person, but instead are intended to poignantly and memorably illustrate the steps, strategies, and insights presented herein. To the extent that persons discussed in this book are either composites or entirely fictitious, references thereto are not meant to portray any particular real people, living or dead.

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To my wonderful wife, Melinda, our two amazing children,
Mary and Tristan, and our parents, Betty and Jack Lindner
and Mary and Ross Myers.

CONTENTS

The difference between trying and triumph
is an effective plan of action.

KL

YOUR INTRODUCTION TO
CAREER CHOREOGRAPHY

I have the honor of owning what many believe is the finest and most well-respected television news and hosting agency in the world. Throughout the past thirty-five years, I have choreographed the careers of many thousands of this countrys most successful and popular television newscasters and program hosts, as well as the careers of hugely successful entrepreneurs and professionals who now enjoy their most satisfying job.

The key to these individuals extraordinary success is that they effectively practice the art of Career Choreography. The term itself is one that I coined more than twenty-five years ago and then trade-marked. The first of the Four Principles of Career Choreography is its definition:

There is a logical, success-evoking choreography
for accomplishing all professional goals.
The key is to construct and implement the most
effective set of steps and strategies
in order to attain your goals.

Career Choreography enables you to craft your most rewarding career path, secure the job or position of your dreams, and be hugely successful at your position or profession.