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Release the Lack That You Feel, and Reach Your Full Potential
Several years ago, I was working and living in a small, inexpensive city. At the time, I was renting a huge two-bedroom apartment that cost around $700 a month. I went out to dinner a few times a week, had lots of cable television channels, and drove...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 4 CommentsImmanuel Kant and What Good Hiring Managers Should Look For
Many people who make hiring decisions really do not know what they are doing. In fact, they often make mistake after mistake when hiring. They put too much emphasis on skills and experience. They are overly impressed with interviewing skills. They...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured Leave a CommentWhen I was in college, my girlfriend had the annoying habit of periodically declaring that the dorms were too noisy for her to sleep. What this really meant was she had decided it was time for me to drive her to an industrial part of town so we could...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 1 CommentThe Focus of the Group You Are in Determines the Kind of Person You Become
When I was around 7 years old, an international touring group of forty or so young singers and dancers called “Up with People” came to my Detroit elementary school. The group put on a spellbinding show that mesmerized me. I went to a relatively...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 4 CommentsThe most happy and successful people in the world are masters of sharing. The most unhappy and consistently challenged people, both emotionally and financially, are poor at sharing. When you find people who are alone and miserable, in most cases they...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 12 CommentsYou Need to Stand for Something
Today, I read a story in the Washington Post about a girl who recently resigned from West Point and is going to Yale. She resigned from West Point because she is gay and the school will kick her out if it learns that she is gay. Tired of compromising...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 1 CommentThe Importance of Disconnecting from Your Work
Some of the happiest, most well-adjusted, and most effective people I know are also people who have a profound ability to disconnect from their work. They can disconnect rapidly and put themselves in another state of mind that does not involve work. Some...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 3 CommentsWhy You Should Work Weekends and Holidays
I cannot tell you how many people have ruined their careers by having the wrong attitude when it comes to working weekends and holidays. Although you may consider your work just a job, if you send this message to your superiors, you will be in trouble...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job 7 CommentsInduction, Deduction, and Your Career
When you look at the way something has been in the past to draw conclusions about the way something always will be, or always is, you are using inductive reasoning. A standard example of induction would be: All grass examined thus far is green. This...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World Leave a CommentHow to Get Hired Where There Is Not Even an Opening
For some reason, almost every week (sometimes more than once a week) venture capitalists and private equity companies call me to talk about the various businesses I am involved in. I used to talk to them quite formally, the way average people like me...
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