Creativity Lands the Interview?

For those in the job market or thinking of changing jobs or careers, some great advice below on creativity vs. professional lines.
CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Debra Wheatman
How much value does sending your résumé to a hiring manager on the bottom of a shoebox, or in a lipstick tube add? Creativity might be the way to land that [...]

Leadership

By Jeff Kinch
In 2001 USC was widely vilified throughout both local and national media outlets for their hire of ex-Patriots and Jets coach Pete Carroll. It was anathema to their frustrated fan base that the administration would entrust a coach with a .500 record in the NFL and a reputation for being soft on [...]

Why You Should Fire Yourself

Why You Should Fire Yourself
10:31 AM Wednesday December 30, 2009
by Ron Ashkenas | Comments (11)
A great article for those in management or those looking to renew and re energize their perspective for 2010. Thanks to Jeff Kinch for passing along.
When management changes were announced at General Motors earlier this month, most people focused [...]

Personal Elevator Pitch

Some quick little nuggets for sharing the best of you with others. Whether work or life, something worth thinking about as we plan to introduce the 2010 version of each one of us in just a couple weeks.
Thanks to keff Jinch III for sharing.
3 Tips for Perfecting Your Personal Elevator Pitch A personal 30-second [...]

Things happen for you, not to you

For those of you who did not get the direct link for my documentary yesterday, its below:

For today…
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
~James Allen
Things happen for you, not to you…is something someone shared with me the other day. I was having [...]

Over Focused

He’s told us how to start a business and how to save the newspaper industry. Now he tells us (too late) how to be a college kid.
From Mark Cuban:
Got this email today, and decided to share it and my response as a message to college kids out there that are pretty much the [...]

Four things

What are four things you need in the people that act as your support group?
Now, I’m not talking about your family or sometimes even you friends, but perhaps people that you have come to trust in a mentor capacity, ex – boss and professional colleague that keeps you on track for your goals. [...]

Certainty

By Jeff Kinch
I have never been (overly) jealous of those who’ve accumulated or accomplished more. Since I was young, however, I’ve been envious of those that had an unyielding sense of what they wanted or wanted to be. I’m not referring to an 8 year old who wants to play in the NFL, [...]

Its where you finish

Its not where you start, its where you finish.
- General Colin L. Powell (Retired), San Francisco Nov 19th, 2009
I attended an amazing speech by General Colin Powell (Retired) at our annual user conference in San Francisco last week. The speech covered politics, philanthropy, technology, health and life. Now, I’ve seen him before in a similar [...]

5 Ways to Beat the Ugly Networking Stigma

By CAREEREALISM – Approved Expert, Kris Parfitt
“My intention is to meet five people at this function who I really connect with and that two of them eventually become clients.” My friend was impressed while somewhat doubtful of my declaration. My actual success that night was that I met ten people with whom I connected, [...]

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