Designed for busy professionals, students, and anyone navigating the modern workplace, 40-40 distills essential advice into bite-sized, impactful takeaways. Topics include project dynamics, persuasion, consensus building, conflict resolution, detecting false reasoning, leadership expectations, and more. Each tip is rooted in real-world experience and framed to help readers “make good and do good” in their professional and personal lives.
“This isn’t a book about fluff—it’s a field guide for the modern worker,” said Bell. “Whether you’re launching your first job, managing a team, or reevaluating your goals mid-career, 40-40 is designed to offer clarity, encouragement, and proven strategies to help you succeed.”
In the podcast interview, Bell delves into:
● Why brevity is power when it comes to career advice
● How to lead meetings with clarity and direction
● Patterns successful people follow—and how to adopt them
● Mistakes that can derail careers and how to avoid them
● The value of encouragement, wisdom, and constructive thinking
40-40: 40 Years of Career Life Advice in 40 Minutes is available now on Amazon. An audiobook version is coming soon.
Listen to the full podcast episode on [Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your platform of choice].
About the Author:
Michael Allen Bell is a cybersecurity risk advisor, application developer, and computer science instructor with over forty years of professional and academic experience. Among his specialties are knowledge engineering for harnessing human intelligence for decision making software assist to aid expert analysts. He has a bachelor’s in mathematics and a master’s in computer science, where he specialized in software project effort estimation. In off hours he delights in family time, and is an avid history and meteorology buff.
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