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Relationships, Inefficiency, and Your Career
One of the greatest obstacles for efficient businesses is the influence of relationships. In fact, relationships are sometimes so strong that they can ultimately end up crippling a business. Conversely, some of the greatest powers you personally have...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 3 CommentsSuccess Requires Ignoring Group Norms
When I started legal recruiting, within a few months of starting the business, I met a man who was one of the founders of the dominant legal recruiters association. At one time, he had the largest legal recruiting firm in California. As I spent time getting...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 2 CommentsMentors, Attachment Disorders, and Your Career
When I was 15 years old, I spent a year living with my family in Bangkok, Thailand. We lived in a small apartment tower with about twelve other families. One day, I went down to the lobby of the apartment before going to school and there was a small puppy...
Filed under Advancement, Featured, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World Leave a CommentI believe that one of the most powerful things in the universe is the mind. Through our minds we can change the world. Skyscrapers, rocket ships, submarines–everything that exists has been conceived in the minds of men and women. If you think about...
Filed under Featured, Staying Positive 11 CommentsNothing is more important to success in your career and life than being in the zone. The problem with most people, however, is that they are not in the zone; instead, they are merely doing what they and others think they should be doing. Most people...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 12 CommentsFrustration, Rejection, Sylvester Stallone, and Rocky
A few weeks ago, I interviewed a guy for a job, and he has been e-mailing me every few days since the interview. He was highly qualified for the position and had great credentials. I have decided that I am not going to hire him and I will tell you why: The...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Staying Positive 8 CommentsI have been working since the time I was around 9 years old. When I was 9 years old, I wrote my age down illegibly on an employment application so that I could get a job delivering newspapers for the Detroit News. At the time, you needed to be 11 in order...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 1 CommentDo and Give More Than Is Expected of You
When I was 18 years old, I spent three months working as a garbage man in Detroit. It was one of the more interesting experiences of my life. I had taken the job out of necessity because I had the good fortune of being cut off from any spending money...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 3 CommentsYou Need to Be Connected with Others at Work
Early in my career I used to work directly with attorneys who had lost their jobs or were having extreme difficulty finding their first job. If certain people were persistent enough, and I saw they had real potential, I would generally invite them into...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 1 CommentRelationships, Commodities, and Making Connections
Several years ago, I was at a wedding rehearsal dinner with a man who was one of the several owners of a very famous New York and Los Angeles sushi restaurant called Nobu. I had never met the man before that night. I was seated right next to him and...
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