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I love when science validates my (several forms of) crazy. As many of you know, I seem to have some kind of mild fixation on shaking hands. I tend to rant about it. I talked to my 9 year old daughter about it yesterday as a matter of fact. (She gave someone a limp handshake. [...]

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The Keys To Unlocking Your Most Successful Career by Joann S. Lublin from the July 6, 2010 WSJ online is possibly the best article I have read all year about managing your career. Great, great stuff. Five simple lessons. 1. Network effectively. I already love Lublin. You’ve seen me rant about this before. She recommends [...]

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“Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.” Link to NYT obituary.

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I learned something today. About myself and how I act in a certain situation. I am in a Leadership training class/group through work. There are 6 of us in the group. We meet every other week for an all-day session. Last week, the group nominated me as “Top Gun” – leader of the week. There [...]

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Hannah has turned me on to upmo.com Link to a page on their site that lists 3 networking email templates. You could easily use them as a phone call script as well. Templates: Getting Reconnected Job-finder Intro A Thankful Request I would lose the “I’m incredibly busy right now” line from the Job-finder Intro template. [...]

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Hannah was on TV last night talking about resumes. Give her some love and check her out! Link. I had trouble with audio in Firefox.

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On Nov. 12, I posted about an article from the HBR by Marshall Goldsmith. Goldsmith provided 4 helpful tips on what to do now that we are apparently in the End Times. Hannah, my long time friend and mentor, made a comment wondering why it takes a crisis of such magnitude to do the things [...]

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And again, he’s right. Hannah asked me the other day about a book and TP wrote about it today! It is starting to freak me out a little. Following up on my post from the other day about being in the moment, TP calls us out on meeting apathy/anger. I admit….I suffer from this. And [...]

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Through the magic of LinkedIn, I became privy to a personal branding nightmare. I had a friend and colleague contact me the other day regarding someone with whom I currently work. My friend (we’ll call him “X”) asked me to ask a current colleague, a former hiring manager (HM) from a MAJOR company here in [...]

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After almost a year of being dark, John Porcaro from Microsoft is back to blogging. One of his first posts back is employee reviews. More specifically, he focuses on those of required to fill out our own reviews. Beyond all of this, he provides some excellent thoughts around personal brand management. Key Point #1: If [...]

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