Creative Success Depends on Long View
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In this podcast, we feature author Taylor Marsh, who [read more]
No Ordinary Moments: Your Epic Life
Every week in America, you read stories of amazing moments where ordinary people triumphed over failure.
You may watch the “Biggest Loser” where a man or woman cut 150 pounds off his or her body to walk on stage looking fantastic in a suit [...]
Podcast: Advanced Selling Tips
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Bill Caskey is the author of three books on selling in the 21st Century, including Same Game, New Rules, his most popular. Bill also hosts The Advanced Selling Podcast, which is a weekly episode speaking to sales people and sales [...]
Podcast: The Four Generations At Work
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Award winning author and presenter, Dr. Elizabeth Kearney, is a former John Hopkins Fellow with a background as both a professor and business owner. She is author of The Four Generations, which explains how to deal with four different [...]
Podcast: GUTSY: How Women Leaders Make Change
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Today’s guest is Sylvia Lafair, Ph.D., President of Creative Energy Options, Inc., a global consulting company that targets and transforms workplace patterns for success and author of GUTSY: How Women Leaders Make Change.
GUTSY: [...]
Podcast: The Power of Three: Achieve Goals By Doing Three Things A Day
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Lisa Dietlin is the author of The Power of Three: How to Achieve Your Goals By Simply Doing Three Things a Day. In The Power of Three, Lisa provides helpful ideas, derived from her experience in the nonprofit arena and in business [...]
Podcast: Create Insanely Happy Customers!
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Want to impact your business in a powerful way? Deremiah knows and tells in this revealing podcast. Award Winning Speaker & Customer Passion Evangelist Deremiah *CPE shares the principles you can use to out-serve everyone in [...]
Podcast: The Value Of Volunteer On Your Job Search
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Lynda Zugec is the Managing Director of Crossing the Globe, a non-profit organization that provides leadership development and work experience for students and young professionals globally. In this podcast, Lynda discusses the [...]
Everyone Can Be Their Own Fireman-Put Out The Flames Of Communication Or Fan Them
It’s not easy being a fireman.
You have to be able to carry 60 pounds of equipment and a hose that weighs 200 pounds when at its water capacity. Then there are all of those steps that you have to be able to go up and down at will. For most [...]
Podcast: What You Don’t Know About Your Job Search Will Hurt You!
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Hank Boyer is the CEO of Boyer Management Group, a Philadelphia-area best practices consulting firm that works with businesses and institutions that want to get the very best out of their people. Since 2011 Hank has authored two [...]
Podcast: Gaining the Competitive Edge in Business
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Award-winning author and presenter, Dr. Elizabeth Kearney is a former John Hopkins Fellow with a background as both a professor and business owner. She is author of The Competitive Edge. In this podcast Dr. Kearney shares tips [...]
How To Hit Those Interview Curveballs Out Of The Park
Job interviews can be stressful.
You’re likely to get thrown a few curve balls, so it is best to be prepared. I read an interesting article in Bloomberg Business Week that mentioned the favorite questions eight senior hiring managers like [...]
Podcast: Keys To Growing Your Business Using LinkedIn
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DJ Muller is president and founder of WebLink International. WebLink empowers hundreds of trade and professional associations and more than 500,000 small and medium businesses to help them acquire and retain more customers.
In [...]
Mentorship Is Like Wizardry: Find Your Glinda
My favorite definition of a wizard is a person with a power or effect that appears magical by its capacity to transform.
That is what you need to look for in your wizard, your mentor: the ability to help you transform.
Having a great mentor [...]
Podcast: Use Intuition & Turn Your Passion Into A Business
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Joan Marie Whelan is an accomplished Master Intuitive, Business Strategist and Lifestyle Consultant.
After years of helping others tap into their intuition, she did the same to re-establish the clothing label her grandfather started [...]
Podcast: Use Intuition & Turn Your Passion Into A Business
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Joan Marie Whelan is an accomplished Master Intuitive, Business Strategist and Lifestyle Consultant. After years of helping others tap into their intuition, she did the same to re-establish the clothing label her grandfather started [...]
Conversational Intelligence And The Government Shutdown
A couple of things happened on October 1 that I want to discuss here.
First the US government shut down due to a budget impasse over the Affordable Care Act. Second, a book called Conversational Intelligence by my friend Judith Glaser was [...]
What Do You Want To Do With The Rest Of Your Life?
It has to be something, right?
As a start, there is nothing better than honestly and carefully writing a short synopsis of your vision.
Sometimes this is a solution, and people go happily into a new life. But, NEW LIFE, what is that?
A recent [...]
Second Place Is A Myth: It Rarely Catapults You To First Place
Second best is not even close to the Brass Ring.
Vice Presidents rarely become president, and back-up quarterbacks rarely rise to permanent status as starting QB. Did you ever think about why?
What are the skills of a back-up and what are the [...]
Podcast: The New World of Work
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Executive & Career Transition Coach, Dr. Beth Ross, is the author of the new eBook, Career Metamorphosis, which is full of helpful hints on moving forward to a new career adventure!
Dr. Beth Ross, who specializes in helping [...]
Podcast: Success Tweets
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JenningsWire blogger, Leadership Consultant & Career Coach, Bud Bilanich Ed.D. “The Common Sense Guy,” is the author of Success Tweets:140 Bits of Common Sense Career Success Advice All in 140 Characters or Less.
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3 Tips For Conquering Job Burnout
Can you relate to the following scenario?
You once approached your work in a dedicated, passionate and enthusiastic way. You were eager and excited about your responsibilities.
While you were aware that there are built in frustrations in [...]
The Importance Of Surrounding Yourself With Positive People
I was feeling a little lazy this morning.
Last night our friends took Cathy and me to my favorite Mexican Restaurant here in Denver – the Brewery Bar II – to celebrate my birthday. We had a great time, but this morning I was feeling a little [...]
Do The Right Thing
Tweet 62 in my career advice book Success Tweets says, “Your personal brand should be unique to you, but built on integrity. Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is looking.”
I saw a great example of this the other day. I was [...]
Who Is Mark Brooks And What Does He Have To Do With Your Success
You may think you have little in common with Mark Brooks.
You probably don’t even know who he is. He has something in common with someone you know, or work with or are related to in some way.
Mark Brooks became a professional golfer in 1983. [...]
How To Climb The Corporate Ladder
In my book Climbing the Corporate Ladder, I list seven steps to creating a successful career inside a large organization.
Clarify the purpose and direction for your life and career.
Commit to taking personal responsibility for your life and [...]
Why Your New And Creative Idea Isn’t Welcome At Work And What You Can Do About It
By: Margaret Ross
July 29, 2013 | Comments Off on Why Your New And Creative Idea Isn’t Welcome At Work And What You Can Do About It
Bob, in the cubicle next to yours at work, just got a promotion and a raise.
Bob has been at Con-Soft-Drink-Co for only a few months, whereas you have been there for almost 5 years.
So, you decide one morning at 3 am (while devouring Oreos because [...]
Surround Yourself With Positive People
I saw the new movie “The Way Way Back” over the weekend.
It’s a coming of age film and a nice summer diversion. But as I often do, I found some life and career success advice in it.
Duncan is the main character in the movie. He is [...]
Be S.M.A.R.T. About Your Goals
Cathy, my wife, had big time back surgery on February 28.
She had a laminectomy, a fusion of two disks, a stabilizing cage attached to her lower pelvis and 8 screws to hold the whole thing together.
She was advised by her doc that it takes six [...]
Deluded? Audacious? Not Necessarily Bad Things
The other day I saw the movie Before Midnight.
If you like dialogue and character development movies, it’s a great flick. It takes an unflinching look at relationships: the bad, the mundane and the good.
Ethan Hawke is the male lead. At [...]
Career Success Lessons From An Impressionist Painter
Recently I saw a film about the later years of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great impressionist painter.
It was a beautiful movie visually. And, I found some life and career success advice in it.
There is a scene in the film where Renoir tells [...]
What A Necktie Can Teach You About Success
Yesterday I was visiting clients.
At my first stop, my client looked at me and said, “You’re wearing your UVA (University of Virginia) tie today. ” His son is graduating from high school and enrolling at UVA in the fall.
I left his [...]
Stay Focused On Your Goals
Henry Ford once said, “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
Good one, Henry.
I have a great story about this. It involves a trash can and a hair dryer cord.
In our bathroom at home, the trash [...]
Career Success Lessons From The Boston Bombings
I have been thinking about the Boston bombings and how many people stepped up to help without thinking about their own safety.
It made me feel good to see people willing to do for others without being asked, or without getting anything in return.
These [...]
10 Ways To Brand Yourself As A Polished Professional
Little things mean a lot.
I had a colonoscopy last week. Unfortunately, I’m at the age, where I need to get checked out every five or so years. As strange as it may sound, I found some great life and career success lessons during the procedure.
My [...]
Say Yes To Your Success
Saying “Yes”.
I was reading the novel “Things Fall Apart” by the great and recently deceased African author Chinua Achebe on a plane the other day. I came across this passage…
“His chi, or personal god, was good. [...]
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