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In 1997, I was working for a federal judge in Bay City, Michigan. It was cold and I was working in a rural area that left a lot to be desired. Even the judge I worked for got the hell out of there when he could go to another part of Michigan. While...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 7 CommentsThe Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon and Your Job Search
One of the most powerful and important things you can do to get a job or achieve anything in life is learn how to just get your foot in the door. Once you are able to get your foot in the door, everything changes. My entire life, I have seen firsthand...
Filed under Advancement, Featured, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 8 CommentsIn Defense of Long-Term Employment with a Single Employer
If you go into any business that’s been around more than twenty or thirty years, you will inevitably find a handful of people who’ve been there from the very beginning of their careers. These well-adjusted souls will typically report to work...
Filed under Advancement, Featured, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 3 CommentsIf you drive less than an hour outside of any major city in America, you will very quickly begin to see a different world. Typically, in the best neighborhoods and areas, the lawns are well maintained and there is not much to see beyond trees, flowers,...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 20 CommentsThe Importance of Sharing Ideas
When I was in law school, I went into the library one afternoon and took a seat at a desk across from a guy I knew quite well. We were not great friends but I had been over to his home a few times and he was a likeable guy in all respects. Both of us...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 12 CommentsNarcissistic Entitlement Syndrome
The word “narcissism” comes from the Greek character Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection and was made famous by the Greek poet Ovid. The story is one of great psychological complexity. In the story, Echo falls in love with...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 27 CommentsIn a bad job market, the most important thing you can do is to keep trying. Never give up. Life is a race and your career is also a race. The problem with most people is that they are often willing to give up at the first sign of...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 3 CommentsMy Lesson from the Missionaries
Several years ago, I was working at a law firm and virtually from the moment I arrived a woman I’ll call “Linda” used to come into my office for a few hours a day to talk. Her topic? How bad things were at the law firm. She would share...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 19 CommentsCreate 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 CommentsYour Job Is about the Transference Energy
A few years ago I was in India and was interested in going to see what is called “an energy healer”. I was interested in this because I had been to several seminars where I had heard about people changing outcomes and healing others with energy...
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