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Flow, Your Ego and Your Career
Aristotle believed that more than anything, we seek to be happy. There are some individuals who do their work and continually find happiness in this work. Work for them takes on a meaning that transcends what most of us experience. These people feel...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 8 CommentsAthens, Sparta, America and Your Job Search
One of the greatest conflicts in the ancient world was between Athens and Sparta. In fact, the history of ancient Greece was dominated by the conflict between these two different cultures. Both cultures ended up leaving an important legacy to the world. On...
Filed under Advancement, Featured, Finding a Job, Job Market, Keeping a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 14 CommentsOne of the most important things for you to realize when you are looking for a job and you see a position advertised is this: the employer wants to hire you. If the position is advertised, the employer is actually desperate to hire you. When I say...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, Job Market 3 CommentsIn 1979, when McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal, I, along with every other kid, was excited to go to McDonald’s all of a sudden. I was 9 years old back then and the McDonald’s on Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, which had formerly been...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 3 CommentsThe Use of Testimonials and Endorsements in Your Job Search
When I was in my final year of high school, one day the English teacher handed me back a paper I’d written and it had a B+ on it. While there were a lot of classes that I would have been incredibly happy if I received this grade in, English was...
Filed under Advancement, Featured, Finding a Job, Keeping a Job 3 CommentsYou Need to Stop Competing and Seeing Differences Between You and Others
If you are looking for a job, trying to improve in your current job, or simply wish to experience a better life, there’s one thing you need to do: You need to be friends with everyone you meet in business, and stop competing and seeing differences....
Filed under Advancement, Featured 1 CommentHow Using the Power of a Routine Can Make You a Top Performer
In the early 1990s, a very rigorous scientific study was done in Berlin on music. The study’s objective was to understand why certain violinists were more talented than others. This study is relayed in a fascinating book by Geoff Colvin called...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting, How to Succeed, Life Lessons 4 CommentsYou Need to Be Relevant to Your Employer
In the mortgage industry, many jobs have disappeared. This has put tens of thousands of people out of work. People who lose their jobs in the mortgage industry generally have a couple of options. Frequently, they look for a new job in the same industry,...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 1 CommentGo Beneath the Surface to Find a Job
One of the most interesting theories about life on earth involves the notion that it exists in conditions in which conventional wisdom says it shouldn’t. Carl Wirson of the Wood’s Hole Oceanographic Institution wrote in a 1991 paper: In 1991,...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 1 CommentConcentrate on the Process, Not the Results
Some time ago, I was listening to a seminar about a company that was in the furniture business. This company decided that because it was doing so well, it should expand into the piano business, and also sell pianos. They went out and purchased a Steinway...
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