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How 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 CommentAre You a Value Creator or Value Extractor?
When I was in my third year of college, I applied to a special accelerated program at the University of Chicago Business School, which would have allowed me to graduate from business school and complete my undergraduate degree in a total of five years–instead...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Goal Setting 4 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 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 lawyers were driving around in Porsche convertibles...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 33 CommentsWorking on Sundays and Concentrating on Your Work
There is a secret to success, common among most successful people out there that I have seen time and time again: working on Sundays. When I was practicing law, the best attorneys were always in on Sundays. When I was a student in college and law school,...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 6 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...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 2 CommentsNicholas Cage and Personal Leadership
Yesterday I saw the most interesting story about Nicholas Cage. Apparently, he just had a pyramid commissioned and delivered to a Louisiana cemetery for his body to be placed in when he dies. The story also talked about how Cage had recently dyed his...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed, Life Lessons 18 CommentsThe Importance of Being Well-Liked in Your Job
One of the most persistent problems people in the work world have is their failure to collaborate with, and learn from, their co-workers. Several factors are necessary for success in any job and in advancing your career. Being well liked and collaborating...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 2 CommentsThe Greatest Secret of Billionaires, 95-Year-Old Attorneys and the Retirement Myth
I have been in Las Vegas this week, and a good five or six times, I have heard various people talk about how Steve Wynn does this, or Steve Wynn does that. There is absolutely no question that Wynn is a successful guy, and I would love to go over and...
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