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In 1997, I was working for a federal judge in Bay City, Michigan. It was cold and I was working in a rural area that left a lot to be desired. Even the judge I worked for got the hell out of there when he could go to another part of Michigan. While...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 7 CommentsFlow, Your Ego and Your Career
Aristotle believed that more than anything, we seek to be happy. There are some individuals who do their work and continually find happiness in this work. Work for them takes on a meaning that transcends what most of us experience. These people feel...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 8 CommentsTreating Your Career Like a Small Business
No one seems to take the time to consider that their careers are businesses. Your career is no different than any small business. You have a product (you) that you’re selling to your audience (your employer). You need to run your career exactly...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Goal Setting 4 CommentsThe Greatest Thing in the World
Henry Drummond’s The Greatest Thing in the World is a classic work that illuminates the importance of Corinthians 13. Here, he addresses practical ways in which Christians today can experience the greatest thing in the world – LOVE. Widely...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books 1 CommentWhen I was growing up, my mother was an investigator with the Michigan Department of Civil Rights. Essentially, her job involved listening to various peoples’ complaints alleging they were discriminated against by an employer due to their race, sex,...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 3 CommentsPolice Chases, Foreclosures and Access to Information
About three years ago, my mother’s boyfriend Dave started calling me and threatening to come out to California from Detroit and kill me unless I made my mother sign her house over to him. My mother had moved away from Michigan to be close to my...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed, Life Lessons 5 CommentsThe 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 CommentsProtect 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 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 CommentSeveral years ago, I wrote an article for BCG Attorney Search called “Builders and Destroyers”. In this article, I discussed the two types of people one may encounter inside a law firm: (1) People whose mission it is to build and improve things around...
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