Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about options for older job seekers, hiring [...]
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
Albert Einstein
It’s no secret that leaders have inflated views of their skills and competence–we’ve known this for a long time as it’s a consistent finding in all 360-degree feedback research1. What is simply amazing is the gap between self-perception and reality.
The prevalence of self-enhancement is not [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: Your Next Job
Competency: self-development
Who benefits: individuals searching for new job opportunities, coaches
Consultant Usage: coaches, internal outplacement consultants
What’s it about? “May you live in interesting times.” This ancient proverb is meant as a curse. We may now be living in interesting times. Just read the business pages…or most days the front [...]
“I can believe anything provided it is incredible.”
Oscar Wilde
In a new study, 61.3% of the public and 20.2% of professionals believe that a miracle can a save person in a persistent vegetative state and 57.4% of the public said divine intervention can save a person when doctors think treatment just isn’t going to work, compared [...]
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Title: Positive Leadership
Competencies: leadership, self-development
Who benefits: project leads, team leaders, supervisors, managers, executives
Consultant Usage: general education, coaching education, referrals, training materials
What’s it about? I have been coming across the term “positive leadership” in my never ending search for material for my postings. I decided to delve a bit deeper.
My ramblings seemed [...]
At premier articles directory EzineArticles, articles submission were at an all time high this past week. Article submission is low cost and it potentially helps with traffic acquisition – both as an aid in search engine optimization and by exposing the article (and your URL) to a variety of visitors at other sites. Some marketers [...]
Pay-per-click advertising (PPC) is basically an auction system where advertisers bid for the best ad positions – the most coveted of which are on the first page. But price alone isn’t all that counts, especially on Google.
Quality scores greatly affect the price you’ll pay for a top position. These scores are the search engines’ attempt [...]
Wondering what kind of person would start a company in an economic meltdown? A very smart one, according to Y Combinator’s Paul Graham. “…it has gotten very cheap to run a startup, and a recession will if anything make it cheaper still.” It also means there’s less competition.
Paul Graham’s Startup Survival Guide For The [...]
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Title: Time Management
Competency: self-development
Who benefits: individuals, coaches, organizational consultants
Consultant Usage: coaching, training, consulting for organizational effectiveness
What’s it about? I had the pleasure recently of coaching a young woman who has exceptional technical skills along with an extraordinary set of skills we attribute to high emotional intelligence. Her bosses, direct reports and [...]
OK, maybe it’s not “easy”, but there’s certainly no magic to it. Books upon volumes have been penned about this fairly straightforward topic; books full of hacks, wisdom and tricks that will help you maintain your focus and not get sidetracked. But I’ve got some news for you, Jack…
It’s entirely up to you. Anything that [...]