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The Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon and Your Job Search
One of the most powerful and important things you can do to get a job or achieve anything in life is learn how to just get your foot in the door. Once you are able to get your foot in the door, everything changes. My entire life, I have seen firsthand...
Filed under Advancement, Featured, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 8 CommentsIn Defense of Long-Term Employment with a Single Employer
If you go into any business that’s been around more than twenty or thirty years, you will inevitably find a handful of people who’ve been there from the very beginning of their careers. These well-adjusted souls will typically report to work...
Filed under Advancement, Featured, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 3 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 CommentsThe Importance of Sharing Ideas
When I was in law school, I went into the library one afternoon and took a seat at a desk across from a guy I knew quite well. We were not great friends but I had been over to his home a few times and he was a likeable guy in all respects. Both of us...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 12 CommentsNarcissistic Entitlement Syndrome
The word “narcissism” comes from the Greek character Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection and was made famous by the Greek poet Ovid. The story is one of great psychological complexity. In the story, Echo falls in love with...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 27 CommentsMy Lesson from the Missionaries
Several years ago, I was working at a law firm and virtually from the moment I arrived a woman I’ll call “Linda” used to come into my office for a few hours a day to talk. Her topic? How bad things were at the law firm. She would share...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 19 CommentsCreate Rules that Make You Feel Successful, Not Unsuccessful
I attended a private high school named Cranbrook-Kingswood. There was a lot of competition to get accepted. A couple of years before I started there, the founder of Little Caesar’s Pizza, Mike Ilitch, made a large donation to the school with instructions...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 20 CommentsThe Most Important Thing You Can Have Is Faith
Several years ago I was practicing law, and over Christmas I went home to Michigan from Los Angeles for a one week vacation. At the time, I was also a law professor and I had brought a stack of papers to grade with me. For several days I read paper after...
Filed under Staying Positive 12 CommentsYour Beliefs about Yourself Are Controlling Your Destiny
When you go down any street in virtually any major urban environment in the world, you’ll see people living on the street. I’ve lived in Europe, Asia, and all over the United States. Wherever I’ve gone, I’ve seen people living...
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