June 22, 2016Career Following the Script Too Closely [There’s a video bonus with today’s Note. See the PS. -m.e.] “You’re good at {insert school topic here}, you should be a {insert […]
May 25, 2016Career What Is Your Sense of the Sum? What is your sense of the sum? Negative, zero, or positive? Some people are zero-or-negative sum. They believe that the world is […]
May 20, 2016Career, Job search, Sweetspot The Best Way to Land a Job These Days Job boards, applications, resumes. Oh. My. Stories from the front lines tell us that the traditional way of finding a job is pretty […]
April 27, 2016Career It’s Meant to Be Fun It turns out that some of us were never told: work is meant to be fun. It is meant to have meaning, […]
April 25, 2016Career, Sweetspot How Meaningful Is Your Career Right Now? Meaningful careers are those where we are doing: Something that we are good at, Something that motivates us, Something that satisfies our needs, […]
April 18, 2016Career, What Picking a Dream Achieving a dream requires that we first commit whole-heartedly to that dream. But–oh–we hesitate. We’re afraid that if we pick one dream we’ll either […]
April 7, 2016Career, Hiring, Job search, Leading Nice Beats Experience We can waste a lot of time struggling with people who are smart, hard working, experienced, connected, and/or driven but who are […]
March 10, 2016Career, Leading, Sales and Influence The Oddest Career and Marketing Secret The secret is that the people we can help the most and best are the ones who struggle with the same things […]
February 14, 2016Career, Grows How to Make Your Business or Career Soar Most of us do not give our hearts to anything. – J. Krishnamurti We all will continue to struggle in our businesses […]
December 23, 2015August 29, 2019Career, Do, Good: Your Good Work, Grows, Leading, Strategy, Success, Sweetspot, What All Is Nominal People who fire rockets like to say, “Conditions are nominal,” when everything is good to go. Guess what? Conditions are nominal. All […]