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Harmonize with the People in Your Environment
One of the most unusual candidates I ever worked with back when I was a job recruiter was someone who had basically worked for five different law firms in a five-year period. He had absolutely stellar credentials, having attended the best schools, and...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 4 CommentsSupermodels, Your Body, and Your Mind
I have recently moved into a condominium in Las Vegas and every single day I go down to the gym and exercise. The condo building itself is very large and the units themselves range in price from $100,000 to upwards of $5,000,000. One of the most exciting...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 6 CommentsAlways Ask and Observe: “How Long Have People Been Around?”
There is one very easy and almost fail-safe way to evaluate companies, individuals, and various groups of people. It can save you a tremendous amount of worry in business deals and it can also ensure that you end up working in places that are likely...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 21 CommentsWhen I was growing up in Grosse Pointe, a suburb outside of Detroit, I lived on a street where all of the other families were married, and my mother was the only single mother on the street. At some point it became clear to me that the other families...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 5 CommentsI have been working since the time I was around 9 years old. When I was 9 years old, I wrote my age down illegibly on an employment application so that I could get a job delivering newspapers for the Detroit News. At the time, you needed to be 11 in order...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 1 CommentYou Need to Be Connected with Others at Work
Early in my career I used to work directly with attorneys who had lost their jobs or were having extreme difficulty finding their first job. If certain people were persistent enough, and I saw they had real potential, I would generally invite them into...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 1 CommentNever Go for the “Quick Advantage”
Once when I was around 12 years old, I was riding my bicycle and a car came out of nowhere, knocked me down, and then ran over the bike. The man who hit me was coming out of a bank and had crossed a sidewalk, not looking where he was going. I was a little...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 9 CommentsRelationships, Commodities, and Making Connections
Several years ago, I was at a wedding rehearsal dinner with a man who was one of the several owners of a very famous New York and Los Angeles sushi restaurant called Nobu. I had never met the man before that night. I was seated right next to him and...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 3 CommentsThe Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer Kahlil Gibran, in his book The Madman, presents a thought-provoking collection of short parables and poems ranging in length from a single paragraph to a few pages. With a touch of class that is unique to...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books 6 CommentsNapolean Hill’s Think and Grow Rich is probably, in my opinion, the best career book ever written.While the subject of the book deals with earning money, the book itself is actually about much, much more.The book deals with how to use your...
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