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From GRS: 5 Career Moves with Exponential Returns

May 30th, 2011 · No Comments · career, change, coaching, personal branding, social networking

I am a big fan of the site: Get Rich Slowly. The other day they ventured into career territory with a post from April Dykman (I like her bio): Five Career Moves with Exponential Returns. If you earn and spend money you should be reading GRS. It has helped put me and my wife (and [...]

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Scientists Agree with Me!

July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · personal branding

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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5 Simple Career Management Lessons

July 17th, 2010 · No Comments · career, coaching, management, networking, personal branding, tools

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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Goodbye, Coach Wooden. Thank you for everything.

June 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · coaching, leadership, Sports

“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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Being Gracious

March 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · career, coaching, leadership

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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Free Networking Templates

January 16th, 2009 · No Comments · career, coaching, social networking, tools

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 on Resumes!

January 6th, 2009 · No Comments · career, coaching, marketing, personal branding, tools

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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Complacency is the Mind Killer

November 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · career, change, coaching, personal branding

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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TP Says: “Make it Special”

November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Books, coaching, tools

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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From Perfect Fit to Restraining Order in 20 Seconds

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · career, coaching, interviewing, personal branding

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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