Your Working Life With Caroline Dowd-higgins

  Jane Frankel is a business author, lifelong educator, workforce consultant, and successful entrepreneur. Today, she serves as the managing principal of The Art of Performance LLC and as an adjunct professor in economics at Temple University. Her new book is “The Intentional Mindset: Data, Decisions, and Your Destiny” (Business Expert Press, August 2023).    Big Idea: Why do some people consistently make good decisions—ones that drive them toward more and more success—while others seem to constantly derail themselves instead? Decisions are based on your mindset, and when you have an intentional mindset, you put yourself in control—fully free to navigate your life and work en route to your desired destiny.     So-What: Mindsets are just facts of life. But when left to chance, they serve little purpose. More importantly, they can cause otherwise fine people to fail, especially in the challenging and chaotic 21st-century workplace, where things—particularly post-pandemic—are fast, often remote, continuously cha