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Every day when I sit down to work in the morning and turn on my computer, I receive several emails and comments about the companies I run and about me personally. Some people write to tell me I’m the stupidest person they’ve ever encountered. Other...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed, Life Lessons 15 CommentsGood Things Only Happen When You Are Moving
Probably the low point of my life was the summer I decided I needed to get ready for eleventh grade. Since I was young, I had been told that if I wanted to get into a good college, I would have to earn excellent grades in eleventh grade. My father had...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 3 CommentsGarlic Olive Oil, Craigslist Massages-and Doing Your Homework
I’ve decided that I am never again going to have a masseuse come over from Craigslist. It’s just not worth it. A few weeks ago I was at a conference in Chicago. I was staying at a so-so hotel without a spa near the airport. I called the front...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 6 CommentsUse Personal Stories to Connect with an Employer and Get a Job
Whenever I meet a merchant, the biggest question I often have is how much something costs. Lots of merchants refuse to tell you how much something costs until they have shown you what they are selling and all of its various features. Many merchants also...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 1 CommentHow to Use Social Networking, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter in Your Job Search
In Los Angeles—like most major cities—if you go to a major auto dealer you will notice a group of ten or more salespeople, usually men, who are standing together (smoking, drinking coffee, gossiping, and so forth) waiting for you. In some dealerships...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World Leave a CommentHow You Handle Chaos Will Determine Your Success or Failure
Yesterday, I received a telephone call at 9:00 am from an employee who had been working for a recruiting company of ours for less than 72 hours and was giving notice before boarding an airplane. We had brought this particular employee out to work for...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 8 CommentsSeveral years ago, we were launching a newsletter for law schools. One of our employees, who was working on the project, decided that the title of the newsletter should be, “The Signal.” He was very enthusiastic about this particular title....
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, Job Market, Life Lessons 4 CommentsWhen I was in college I remember going for an interview with the investment bank JP Morgan. I had no idea how I had gotten the interview but it was for something dealing with finance and statistical studies of Asian securities markets. I had gone to...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 6 CommentsSeveral years ago I was working with a distinguished law firm partner who had been given a few months to find a new job by his existing firm. The partner had not looked for a job in probably twenty-five-plus years and I think his confidence was ...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World Leave a CommentYou 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....
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