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Are You More Specific-or More General?
One summer I was working in New York City for a big law firm and was told to go see an important partner about an assignment. I went into the partner’s office and was handed a file: “We have a deadline of next Thursday. Make sure we have...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 4 CommentsImmanuel Kant and What Good Hiring Managers Should Look For
Many people who make hiring decisions really do not know what they are doing. In fact, they often make mistake after mistake when hiring. They put too much emphasis on skills and experience. They are overly impressed with interviewing skills. They...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured Leave a CommentIn a bad job market, the most important thing you can do is to keep trying. Never give up. Life is a race and your career is also a race. The problem with most people is that they are often willing to give up at the first sign of...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 3 CommentsOne of the most persistent mistakes people make is not fitting in with their work environments. Fitting in enables you to both get and keep a job. In terms of what it takes to succeed in the long term, fitting in may actually be more important than your...
Filed under Featured, Job Market, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 19 CommentsLately I have been hearing more and more people say that there are no jobs. I hear this so much it is making me angry. There may not be the same number of jobs that there were two years ago; however, there are still jobs. There are actually tons of jobs...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 11 CommentsThe Godfather, a First Google Employee, Steve Ballmer and Microsoft
A few years ago, I had dinner with one of Google’s first employees. How he joined Google was a long and convoluted story that had more elements of luck than I can ever recount. He’d been working in a midsized town in relative obscurity and...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 9 CommentsYour Job Is about the Transference Energy
A few years ago I was in India and was interested in going to see what is called “an energy healer”. I was interested in this because I had been to several seminars where I had heard about people changing outcomes and healing others with energy...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 9 CommentsIn his book, Thought Vibration, William Atkinson brings forward the great underlying principles of the psychic power. Just as we use electricity, steam, and other forms of energy everyday, Atkinson believes this power too can be used and applied for legitimate...
Filed under Self Improvement Books 3 CommentsSeek Out and Work with People Who Share Your Beliefs
A few years ago on a chilly December evening, my wife and I were having a late dinner one night at a restaurant in Malibu. The main restaurant had closed so we were seated near the bar. A man walked in through the front door, who looked like he was on...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 7 CommentsInstead of Seeking Praise, Seek Criticism
Several years ago, I had a girlfriend who would fly off the handle at the slightest criticism. It didn’t matter who was criticizing her. She would call people ugly, smelly, short–whatever attack she could muster in response to what she perceived...
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