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Sorry its been so long. My daughter got sick and ultimately came down with pneumonia. We’ve been in the hospital for a week. I expect to be here another few days. I have a ton of reading to catch up with. Lifehacker had a post about the Top 10 Tools for Landing a Better Job [...]

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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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Props to Hannah for pointing this out in her blog. Here is a great intro to LinkedIn – most of you know I am a LinkedIn fiend. This is a very easy to handle explanation. What is LinkedIn? from LinkedIn Marketing on Vimeo.

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OK – if you don’t GET Twitter, take the 3 minutes and watch this…it will make sense. I still don’t think i am using it properly but I am working on it. I get it. I get it!

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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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I’m fairly sure I have written about Rick Houcek before…I met him while I was a member of a TEC group. I love his passion. He gets fired up about stuff. In his latest email, he talks about changing up the types of questions he asks during an interview. He did this to change things [...]

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The July 2007 HBR has an article I am just getting to on Building Your Leadership Brand. The authors examine companies that focus leadership development on building a general leadership capability versus individual leaders. They refer to this general capability as a leadership brand. They define the LB as a: “reputation for developing exceptional managers [...]

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This has been a great weekend! First, I have won the battle of the Mike Lally’s! I checked my Google page rank yesterday and 4 of the top 5 links belong to ME! Including the number one spot. And the number 2. Secondly, I have FINALLY managed to port the lasts posts over from Diligentia [...]

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My friend Harry over at MarketingHeadhunter.com posts a great story that runs counter to yesterday’s post. In yesterday’s post, I referenced a thought from Seth Godin that if you are truly the bees knees, you don’t need a resume. If you’re great, great opportunities will find you. Low and behold, Harry writes of a friend [...]

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Lifehacker posted about Jason Alba’s Wired How-to Wiki page “Get Ahead on Linkedin.” He provides four very simple steps for getting yourself up and running on Linkedin. They are: 1. Plan Your Profile – be specific on what you include in your profile. Detailed but not too detailed. 2. Let ‘em Down Easy – you [...]

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