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 questioning beliefs that hold you back, [...]
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Title: Your Job Survival Guide
Competency: self development
Who benefits: job seekers
Consultant Usage: coaching tool
What’s it about? I want to wish all of you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2009. And while I am handing out wishes, I wish gainful employment to the 8% plus of you who are currently without a job.
I [...]
Earlier this week I saw a report from Computer Economics (IT Spending Forecast for 2009-2010) predicting that spending on IT equipment and software will recover faster from this recession than it did after the 2000 technology meltdown. Furthermore, the recovery will begin in early 2010.
This started me thinking. What should marketers and business owners be [...]
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Marketers: Brace yourself for stiffer competition this year in the e-mail marketing world.
The December 8, 2008 issue of BtoB Magazine confirmed (not surprisingly, I might add) that marketers plan to beef up their e-mail marketing efforts during 2009.
Of the folks surveyed, nearly half (43.5%) say they’re keeping budgets intact, but they’re shifting dollars away from [...]
Careers are woven from several different strands. Here are six important ones.
Aptitude is important. You’re likely to succeed at things you’re good at.
A lot of research and two recent best sellers point out that talent, or aptitude, is overrated when it comes to career success. True enough. But that doesn’t mean that they don’t count.
Interest [...]
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
William A. Ward
A recent study suggests that there is a statistically significant link between CEO family deaths and the companies’ profitability over a decade1. These researcher identified 6,753 deaths occuring to CEOs and family members–1,015 corresponded to CEOs, 282 [...]
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 the “out-of-office reply,” extreme job hunting, [...]