career advice | a harrison barnes
Several years ago I was working with a distinguished law firm partner who had been given a few months to find a new job by his existing firm. The partner had not looked for a job in probably twenty-five-plus years and I think his confidence was ...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World Leave a CommentInsider Trading, Ponzi Schemes, and Making the Most of Your Assets
One kind of story that probably will forever be a part of the news is the kind of story concerning various arrests and criminal prosecutions for insider trading, Ponzi schemes, and so forth. When these arrests have occurred, whether we are talking about...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 1 CommentProtect Your Reputation at All Costs
“A risk to reputation is a threat to the survival of the enterprise.” -Peter J. Firestein I read an article once about Blackstone executive David Blitzer, whose father-in-law he once charged with trying to shake him down for $7.5 million. The man...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 9 CommentsCheap Is Expensive: A Marine Disaster
One thing I’ve learned in my lifetime is if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Every day, so many of us are glued to televisions and see people become rich overnight on game shows. Growing up, kids receive a lot of messages that you...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 10 CommentsIf you drive less than an hour outside of any major city in America, you will very quickly begin to see a different world. Typically, in the best neighborhoods and areas, the lawns are well maintained and there is not much to see beyond trees, flowers,...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 20 CommentsWomen and Men, Planning, and Unemployment
In my days of practicing law, some of the other young male associates were extremely secretive about sharing their personal lives with anyone in the firm. There were two things they did not necessarily want everybody to know about: Whether they were...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 4 CommentsAttaining Your Desires by Letting Your Subconscious Mind Work for You
Genevieve Behrend’s Attaining Your Desires by Letting Your Subconscious Mind Work for You is a magical book that conveys to us the method of scientific right thinking and compels us to use it to think only of those things you wish to see crystallized...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books 1 CommentThought-Force In Business and Everyday Life
“Thought-Force In Business and Everyday Life” by William Atkinson is an extremely interesting book that talks about personal magnetism, the quality of attracting and influencing people around us. Success in life, according to Atkinson,...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books Leave a CommentYou Must Have the Home Team Advantage
One of the most interesting things to me is witnessing people when they make a complete reversal in their lives and overnight become incredibly successful, happy, and fulfilled people. Perhaps the reason this is so fascinating is that it happens so rarely....
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 7 CommentsTime Economy Jobs and Productivity Economy Jobs
In a law firm, when an attorney stops billing hours and no longer has any work, the person will be very close to losing his or her job. Survival in law firms involves staying busy and making work all the time. This is one reason it is so hard for young...
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