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Thought-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 CommentImitation, Our Parents, and Transference
Several years ago, I was at dinner with a man and his wife, both of whom used to work for an advertising company that did business with Ralph Lauren. Since Lauren was their main account, they had spent years getting to know him and his staff and observing...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 3 CommentsNever Try to Be Someone Different from Who You Are
A few years ago, the Dean of the law school I attended took me out to lunch. He was in town because his son was attending a math camp. He told me his son absolutely loved math and the Dean was nurturing his skill. Reflecting on his son’s math...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 10 CommentsChoose an Employer Who Is Marching Forward
There are generally two types of employers in this world: the employer who is marching forward and the employer who is in retreat. There is also a third type of employer (for whom nothing is changing) that merits some discussion as well. However, for...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 5 CommentsThe Graduate, Andrew Carnegie, and Finding Positive Economic Currents
In the 1967 movie The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman plays a young, recent college graduate, Ben. At a party, Ben is congratulated by his family and their friends: Guests: We’re all so proud of you, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud. What...
Filed under Advancement, Featured Leave a CommentDo What You Want to Do, Not What You Think You Should Do
I know two men who worked in New York City, each of whom made millions of dollars and immediately quit their jobs, taking up completely different careers as gas station owners in New Jersey. I learned about one of these men when I was in college, and...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 2 CommentsEliot Spitzer, Your Dark Side and Being Calm
I had a very disturbing experience several months ago and I am almost reluctant to talk about it because it was so disturbing. I am hesitant because I recognize that your natural response might be to assume I am a little aberrated for being in the situation...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 4 CommentsFrederic Van Rensselaer Dey’s The Magic Story first appeared in 1990 and created an immediate sensation worldwide. The book is in two parts and the author has remarkably woven the fundamental principles of the ‘New Thought Movement’,...
Filed under Self Improvement Books 1 CommentYou Need to Be Self-Managing and Responsible
Several years ago our company was operating in downtown Los Angeles. At less than a year old, the company was very small at the time; however, the people I was working with were nothing short of extraordinary: I had one computer programmer who had gone...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job 8 CommentsBeing in the asphalt business in Detroit taught me very early on that things frequently go wrong. In fact, things go wrong so frequently, it is difficult to believe: Pumps break. Tanks break. Trucks break. People get injured. Employees do not show up...
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