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Push Yourself Outside Your Comfort Zone
About ten years ago, an attorney who had been practicing about seven or eight years longer than me purchased his first house. I remember congratulating him on the purchase, and his response shocked me at the time: “I am very happy with the house. ...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 1 CommentCreate Rules that Make You Feel Successful, Not Unsuccessful
I attended a private high school named Cranbrook-Kingswood. There was a lot of competition to get accepted. A couple of years before I started there, the founder of Little Caesar’s Pizza, Mike Ilitch, made a large donation to the school with instructions...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 20 CommentsCriticism, Your Career, and Your Life
Throughout your career, you will encounter a series of so-called friends, confidants, and others who will come up to you and let you in on various things that “people are saying about you.” I am not talking about the sort of people who are...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 9 CommentsThe Best Way to Prepare for a Job Search and Interviews
Several years ago when looking for a position in Los Angeles, I interviewed with numerous law firms. In virtually every one of these interviews I ran across an attorney who knew not one, not two, not three—but numerous, numerous attorneys in my...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 6 CommentsThe Godfather, a First Google Employee, Steve Ballmer and Microsoft
A few years ago, I had dinner with one of Google’s first employees. How he joined Google was a long and convoluted story that had more elements of luck than I can ever recount. He’d been working in a midsized town in relative obscurity and...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 9 CommentsYou Will Succeed in Your Job and Job Search When You Are Concerned with Giving and Not Taking
The quality of our lives, in many respects, is determined by our working lives. Being able to enjoy our jobs and being able to get jobs is something that’s incredibly important. A job is not just about earning a living; it’s about forming...
Filed under Advancement, Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 3 CommentsYour 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 of the team will determine your success or failure. The ability...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job 10 CommentsThe Dangers of Getting Jobs Through Friends
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure. “Oh, I already have a friend there. I’ll just contact him.” In the job market, it’s one of the more common things we hear...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, Job Market 4 CommentsHarness the Power of Your Subconscious Mind to Get a Job and Improve Your Career
I know of so many people who fail to get jobs and, ultimately, do not have good careers because they keep their minds cluttered with things that have nothing to do with their job search. I have wanted to write for some time about how to harness the subconscious...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts 9 CommentsCommunicate Your Value: How to Get a Job and Keep It
One of the best ways to realize the importance of communication is through simple services, such as getting a shoeshine, ordering hotel room service, or taking advantage of valet parking. In these situations the people providing the service must act...
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