Your Job Is a Game-Make Your Opponents External
After being in the workforce for many years, I realize that all of our jobs are, simply, games. In every job you have ever had, you are part of a game. Your ability to play the game and be part...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job 10 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...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 1 CommentHow to Choose Recruiters, Executive Search, and Recruitment Agencies (and How They Work)
When you go to most job sites, the majority of advertisements you will typically see will be from recruiters. However, despite so many recruiter advertisements clogging job sites, recruiters are one of the most popular (and most misunderstood) ways of...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 3 CommentsWhy You Must Change and How to Overcome Resistance to Change
Two of the largest impediments to our living better lives, having better careers, and being everything we are capable of being are (1) not changing, and (2) not taking the action necessary to get us to a new place. The...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 4 CommentsThe Importance of Asking the Right Questions, Self-Improvement, and Perception
There is a famous story that comes from Buddhism, about a mother who loses her child. The Buddha was known not only as an enlightened individual but also as someone with the ability to bring the dead back to life....
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 4 CommentsThe Importance of High Standards in Your Life and Career: What High Standards Mean
It is important to have high standards. For the most part, life will pay any price you ask of it. The people who achieve the most in the world have incredibly high standards. It is like this with businesses as...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed Leave a CommentHow to Answer the “Do You Have Any Questions for Me?” Interview Question
Generally, at the end of an interview, the interviewer will ask something along the lines of, “Do you have any questions for us?” It is very important that you always ask questions in an interview when given the opportunity. Incredibly,...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 10 CommentsSeveral years ago a friend called me and encouraged me to interview at his law firm. He told me people at the firm were involved in various movie deals and hobnobbing with movie stars. He told me all of the...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 33 CommentsRap Stars, House Managers, Crystal Meth, Prison, and Your Ego
Several years ago, I was on an airplane that sat on the tarmac for at least an hour due to a screaming rap star. Seated not far from me (in coach) was a very famous rap star, and he was...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 5 CommentsTop 8 Things You Must Remember When Everything Goes Wrong
Several years ago, I had an asphalt customer in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, by the Country Club of Detroit that I did work for each year. He had a beautiful multimillion dollar home, an extremely attractive wife and two beautiful children....
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