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Concentrate on the Process, Not the Results
Some time ago, I was listening to a seminar about a company that was in the furniture business. This company decided that because it was doing so well, it should expand into the piano business, and also sell pianos. They went out and purchased a Steinway...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 8 CommentsHow to Choose a Recruiter Based on Recruiting Style
Every recruiter’s individual style has certain merits. However, there are recruiters who are truly exceptional at what they do. Choosing an exceptional recruiter is even more important in a bad market because the methods he or she uses determines if...
Filed under Job Market 9 CommentsYour Forces and How to Use Them
In this book titled Your Forces and how to Use them, Christian Larson talks about the inherent energies present in each one of us and how one can achieve great things just by realizing and using this limitless energy to the maximum possible extent. The...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books Leave a CommentHow to Get Hired Where There Is Not Even an Opening
For some reason, almost every week (sometimes more than once a week) venture capitalists and private equity companies call me to talk about the various businesses I am involved in. I used to talk to them quite formally, the way average people like me...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 1 CommentDuring the summer of my second year of law school, I worked in a law firm in New York City. One day, I was in the library of the law firm, and I found a report about the law firm which had been written by an outside consulting company. This is what strategic...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 3 CommentsYou Are Just Fine the Way You Are
I was sitting in a sales seminar several months ago and a well known sales trainer got up and started speaking to the audience. He is considered by many to be one of the best salespeople in America, and I was hanging on his every word. The man was describing...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 7 CommentsYou Need to Have Desire to Achieve Your Goals
In order for you to achieve the things you are capable of, you need to constantly be creating goals for yourself and create a massive desire deep down to achieve these goals. There is nothing more important than having a desire deep down to achieve goals....
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Goal Setting 12 CommentsCattle, the Importance of Maintaining Fences-and Your Career
When I was in law school, I lived on a cattle ranch in Albemarle County, Virginia. The ranch was over 550 acres, and the cows used to wander all through the property as large groups, eating grass, mooing, sleeping (standing up, as they do), having baby...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 13 CommentsHow to Talk about Other Interviews in Your Interviews
One of the questions I receive quite often from people I work with is whether or not they should talk about other interviews while they are interviewing with a potential employer. Let me emphasize one thing: This is one of the more important questions...
Filed under Advancement, Featured, Finding a Job 3 CommentsHeart of Darkness, Emotion and Your Career
Everything is about emotion. The ability of someone to arouse our emotions and heart really drives us. Without emotion, you have nothing. We all have emotions deep within us. Many of us don’t even understand these deep emotions. Your ability to...
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