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Do Not Ever Be Afraid to Broadcast Your Value
One of my favorite quotes is by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote: “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” A similar quote is this: “Build a better mousetrap, fail to advertise it or let people know about...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 3 CommentsThe most important thing you can do in your pursuit of success is avoid complacency. Never allow yourself to settle down and accept your results as finite. You need to surround yourself with people who will continue to challenge you to become better....
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 4 CommentsDo Not Trust Appearances: My Visit to Deep Springs College
The first time I visited Las Vegas was in 1988. The city was far different back then, with an old Western vibe–not at all like the modern strip with all of the new casinos and so forth. Las Vegas, in the late 1980s, was more tired and run down;...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 16 CommentsDo and Give More Than Is Expected of You
When I was 18 years old I spent three months working as a garbage man in Detroit. It was one of the more interesting experiences of my life. I had taken the job out of necessity because I had the good fortune of being cut off from any spending...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 3 CommentsOrder and Disorder and Your Career
Every single person, place, or thing that you encounter follows these laws, which present and repeat themselves time and time again. In fact, both order and disorder are good things because they can be used to lead to great improvement in our personal...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 4 CommentsWhen I was younger, there was a restaurant on Telegraph Road in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, that used to offer people a percentage off the price of their meals equal to a person’s age, on the person’s birthday each year. So, on your 25th birthday,...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 4 CommentsExpose Yourself to Pain in Your Job Search
When I was growing up, I did not have any friends whose parents were attorneys. In fact, I did not really know any attorneys until I got to college. A girlfriend of mine at that time had a friend whose stepfather was an attorney. I met him during my senior...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 2 CommentsMeg Whitman’s Greatest Achievement, Networks and Your Career
A few years ago a woman who was working for me sent me a long letter asking for an extreme raise—four times what I was currently paying her. Without going into too much detail, the woman was incredibly accomplished and had a background that was absolutely...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 3 CommentsA Message to Garcia and Your Career
One of the most inspiring true stories I have ever read is A Message to Garcia, by Elbert Hubbard. It is a short essay that discusses the initiative of a soldier who is assigned a difficult mission of delivering a message and comes through, completing...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 5 CommentsMoses, Great Religious Figures, the Wilderness, and Your Career
On a Christmas vacation over ten years ago, I went home to Detroit from Los Angeles, where I was practicing law at the time. I was taking a 10-day vacation. Over the course of those ten days, I found myself having trouble getting to sleep every night....
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