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If My Boss Gets Mad at Me or I Get a Poor Review, Does This Mean I Should Look for a New Job?
Fortunate are the people who find themselves in situations where their bosses are demanding of them. I say this in all seriousness and for several reasons. At the outset, I want to caution you: this article is not for the faint of heart. It’s for individuals...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, Keeping a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 15 CommentsFroth, Downward Wages, and the Importance of Repeat Business
When I started in the asphalt business, the people I was competing against were charging exorbitant rates for their work. As an example, they might charge $600 to seal coat an average-size driveway. The job would require about two hours’ worth of...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 5 CommentsHow to Turn Your Desires and Ideals into Reality
How to Turn Your Desires and Ideals into Reality is a book that talks about putting efforts in idealizing your desires. I am sure you will enjoy discovering the process of understanding how to give form to your desires and how to make your ideals come...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books Leave a CommentHave you ever known someone whose life seems to go wrong at every turn? I have known several people like this. Here are some examples of things that have gone wrong for them: They sign up for a course in school, forget they are enrolled, and get an F...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 5 CommentsA Message to Garcia and Your Career
One of the most inspiring true stories I have ever read is A Message to Garcia, by Elbert Hubbard. It is a short essay that discusses the initiative of a soldier who is assigned a difficult mission of delivering a message and comes through, completing...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 5 CommentsAnything That Is Not Managed Will Deteriorate
Managing your life is like managing a business. When you look at a typical business there are an incredible number of procedures in place to keep the business running. Take a McDonald’s, for example: Each day the restaurant opens at a certain...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 5 CommentsEverything that occurs in our world and to us has a cause. The cause may not be immediately obvious, but it is always there waiting to be found. The result of anything you see always contains its cause, and everything that happens is the result of either...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 11 CommentsThe Secret Career Tactic of “Lock In”
In my experience, some of the smartest and most dangerous people in the world are insurance salesmen, copier salespeople, and auto salespeople. They have a secret called “the lock in” that you can use to seriously enhance your career. Insurance Salespeople...
Filed under Advancement, Featured Leave a CommentThe Use of Testimonials and Endorsements in Your Job Search
When I was in my final year of high school, one day the English teacher handed me back a paper I’d written and it had a B+ on it. While there were a lot of classes that I would have been incredibly happy if I received this grade in, English was...
Filed under Advancement, Featured, Finding a Job, Keeping a Job 3 CommentsYou Need to Be in Favor with the Right People
When I started my first company, back in 2000, I and the other people who were with me at the time sat down and had a three-day meeting during which we discussed what we wanted the company to be then and what we wanted it to become. It was an incredible...
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