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Why You Should Work Weekends and Holidays
I cannot tell you how many people have ruined their careers by having the wrong attitude when it comes to working weekends and holidays. Although you may consider your work just a job, if you send this message to your superiors, you will be in trouble...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job 7 CommentsInduction, Deduction, and Your Career
When you look at the way something has been in the past to draw conclusions about the way something always will be, or always is, you are using inductive reasoning. A standard example of induction would be: All grass examined thus far is green. This...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World Leave a CommentHow 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 CommentThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
One of the most inspiring people in American history is Benjamin Franklin. Something that very few people realize is that Franklin also wrote what is arguably one of the best self-improvement books ever written, The Biography of Benjamin Franklin....
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books 4 CommentsSeven Reasons People Never Have the Successful Careers They Are Capable of
A lawyer told me last night that most of the other attorneys she knows are looking to do something other than practice law. Lawyers are one of the most fascinating breeds of people I know. The ones who go to the top law schools and start in jobs with...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 7 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 CommentsCareer Lessons from Mother Teresa
I have found that by examining the careers of the most successful people out there you can learn a ton of lessons. It does not matter if the person is a business person, a musician, or a religious figure: They all have lessons to teach. While I am not...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 1 CommentMy Trip to the Playboy Mansion: The Importance of Challenging Convention
A couple of years ago, I received a telephone call from a friend of mine who is a pretty well known business motivational speaker, that he had gotten some tickets to a party at the Playboy Mansion. I figured that there was no way in hell my wife would...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 9 CommentsPicking Up Suicide Victims in a Shanghai River
I watched a chilling story on CNN yesterday about a man who has started a business driving his small motorboat up and down a river outside of Shanghai, finding and picking up suicide victims. He fishes the bodies out of the water (in various states of...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 5 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,...
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