Books
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Fed Up With Looking For a Job?
Fed Up With Looking For A Job? Have you been looking for a job for a while? Have you sent out dozens of resumés and heard NOTHING back? Have you talked to recruiters who told you that you weren’t qualified… Continue reading
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The Transition From Manager to Leader
Leaders v. Managers I’m sure you’ve probably heard about the differences between managers and leaders. Managers do things right and leaders do the right thing–right? I think that this is an interesting discussion, but it isn’t that easy. Managers do… Continue reading
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Get a Mentor. Use a Mentor.
Get a Mentor I know you’ve heard it. If you’ve been reading this blog, you’ve heard it from me. You need a mentor to help your career. Easier said than done, right? Typical questions about mentors and mentoring are: What… Continue reading
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Stephen Covey and his Gifts to Business People
All business people owe a lot to Stephen Covey, who died this week at the age of 79. Covey wrote his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, in 1989. There were no earth shatteringly new concepts in it—to… Continue reading
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Onboard Yourself
Onboarding Onboarding is the process that organizations use to get their employees up to speed enough to do their jobs. Another term for it is “organizational socialization.” Organizations have informal and formal methods for the knowledge transfer or processes, tools,… Continue reading
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Are You A Wannabe?
Are you an Executive wannabe? An entrepreneur wannabe? An artist wannabe? A marathoner wannabe? An author wannabe? Do you put one of those on your New Year’s Resolutions list? How about your career goals list? What Is Stopping You? Look… Continue reading
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Promoted! Now What?
Congratulations! You just got promoted. Or you just got reorganized into a new department. Or you just got a new boss. How do you make this a step in the right direction and keep from crashing and burning. Ok, crashing… Continue reading
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Work As We Know It Is Changing–Get Ready!
That Was Then My maternal grandmother went to work when she was thirteen years old at a china factory that made dishes for hotels and restaurants and, eventually, naval ships. She stayed in a rental room with her two-year-older sister… Continue reading
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There’s Networking, and Then There’s NETWORKING
Do It Before You Need It I started this blog out of frustration. I had just talked to my umpteenth client/friend/student/colleague who found him/herself out of a job with a stone cold network and a total freak out about what… Continue reading
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Let’s talk about the most marketable skill of all
Which Skill is So Marketable? What is that, you ask? What could possibly be the MOST marketable skill? EXECUTION. Execution comes in all flavors–marketing, IT, Project Management, Human Resources, strategy, operations, software, finance and on and on. Organizations spend tons… Continue reading
