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Abraham Lincoln, Bringing People Together, and Your Career
Several years ago, after September 11, 2001, I was speaking with the founder of an internet consulting firm in San Francisco. The firm was getting ready to close its doors and go out of business because all of its work had gone away. During the several...
Filed under Advancement, Featured Leave a CommentYou Need to Be in Favor with the Right People
When I started my first company, back in 2000, I and the other people who were with me at the time sat down and had a three-day meeting during which we discussed what we wanted the company to be then and what we wanted it to become. It was an incredible...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 2 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 CommentsWomen and Men, Planning, and Unemployment
In my days of practicing law, some of the other young male associates were extremely secretive about sharing their personal lives with anyone in the firm. There were two things they did not necessarily want everybody to know about: Whether they were...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 4 CommentsCharlemagne, the Roman Empire, and the Importance of Good Leadership
Over the past several years I have become fascinated with leaders and entrepreneurs and what makes them successful. The power of an entrepreneur or leader — to take an idea, unite people around it, and create a long-functioning and successful organization...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 1 CommentFeral Children, Puzzles, Jews, and Filters
I remember growing up around kids with books of puzzles and games in elementary school and junior high school; these were always the kinds of kids that did not fit in. They also got beat up after school, were awkward during gym class, got pushed around...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 3 CommentsAristotle loved studying argumentation and the methods of appeal used to convince someone of a given idea. Aristotle believed that people can be persuaded by the following means: Ethos (an appeal to credibility) Pathos (an appeal to emotions) Logos...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 1 CommentVested Interests: Ask Yourself, “Does This Really Serve Me?”
One thing you often find is that there seem to be a great number of people out in the world whose chosen business is to make your life and circumstances, whatever they may be, seem much worse than they are. In fact, in your day-to-day life, you are probably...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 2 CommentsWhenever I speak to other business owners and ask them how they are doing, one thing I hear over and over is the following: “Things are going well and we are expanding.” In fact, I hear this statement so often, it is difficult to believe....
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed Leave a CommentSick Crows, Your Attitude, and Being on the Winning Team
Over the past week I have been witnessing something extremely unusual in my backyard. There is a crow outside, who appears to be ill – he’s not doing well at all. The crow appears to be infected with West Nile Virus. He wanders around appearing...
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