Creative Success Depends on Long View
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The Power Of Persistence
So I’m driving up Interstate 4 from Tampa to Orlando listening to the rock and roll station.
One song ends and the disc jockey says something like, “The next song is from a performer who, back in 1967, auditioned to replace Steve Winwood [...]
A Final Bit of Career Success Advice From the Super Bowl
The Super Bowl happened over a week ago – and what a weird one it was.
The Ravens were way ahead and looked like they were going to run away with it.
Then the power went out in the stadium. It took about 35 minutes to get it back on and [...]
Personal Branding Lessons From The Super Bowl
It’s Super Bowl week, let the hype begin.
Over 100 million people are likely to watch the Ravens and 49ers battle it out on Sunday. This year’s game is interesting because the head coaches of the opposing teams are brothers. I don’t [...]
Career Success Lessons From The Super Bowl Coaches
The Super Bowl is only a few days away.
Today I want to provide some career success advice that I picked up from the Harbaugh brothers, the opposing head coaches in Sunday’s game.
Jim coaches the 49ers. In the 10th game of the season, he [...]
Forever Young
I’m one of the 500 or so people in the USA who go to the movies to see documentaries.
I saw a very interesting documentary the other day, Diana Vreeland, The Eye Has to Travel. It’s life the story of Diana Vreeland, the noted fashion columnist [...]
2013 Success Rule #1: Get Clear
I am a big believer in the power of clarity.
I always tell my coaching clients that they need to clarify the purpose and direction for their lives and careers. Tweet 1 in my career advice book Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Career [...]
Conquer Your Fears in 2013
The week of December 10 was an emotional roller coaster for me.
I watched the 12/12/12 concert on Wednesday evening and was heartened to see so many celebrities giving their time to help people who really suffered as a result of Hurricane Sandy. [...]
Career Success Lessons from the Fiscal Cliff Discussions
Have you been following the fiscal cliff discussions?
President Obama presented his plan. The other side reacted. Mitch McConnell said he laughed when he saw it. John Boehner said both sides are “nowhere” when it comes to reaching [...]
Be Gracious – Especially When Things Don’t Work Out as You Hoped
It’s a week after the election and Mitt Romney continues to put his foot in his mouth.
In a call with big donors to his campaign the other day he said, “The president’s campaign, if you will, focused on giving targeted groups a [...]
What the Petraeus Affair Teaches Us About Career Success
Last Friday, the November 12 issue of Newsweek showed up in our mail.
It was called “The Heroes Issue.” One of the featured stories was “General Petraeus’ 12 Rules of Leadership.” I thought to myself, “I’ll have to read that [...]
The Importance of Leaving It All on the Field
In his concession speech Tuesday night Mitt Romney said that he and Paul Ryan “left everything on the field” during the recent presidential campaign.
And from what I can tell, they did. They even broke tradition by campaigning on election [...]
The Other Dream Team
Over the weekend I saw a great movie called The Other Dream Team.
If you recall, the original Dream Team was the USA basketball team in the 1992 Olympics. This was the first time NBA professionals competed in the Olympics. The USA Dream [...]
Is Your Reputation Haunted by Ghosts and Goblins?
It’s Halloween once again – time for the ghosts and goblins to come out and play.
While ghosts and goblins are great fun on Halloween; they’re not good when they haunt your reputation. Here are a couple of scary stories that illustrate [...]
Your Unique Gifts, Skills and Abilities Make You Special
My corporate climb
The other day, I interviewed Andy Mills retired President of the Thomson Reuters Financial Professional Publishing Group. This interview is for my membership site, My Corporate Climb.
Andy grew the Thomson Reuters Financial [...]
How Ben Affleck Turned Around His Career
There’s a new movie about the Iran Hostage Crisis coming out on Friday.
It’s called “Argo” and is directed by Ben Affleck. Ben has resurrected his career. If you recall, he was a mainstay of the tabloids several years ago. Now [...]
To Thine Own Self Be True
Hiring by algorithms
There was in interesting article in the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago called “Meet the New Boss: Big Data, Companies trade In Hunch-Based Hiring for Computer Modeling.” In part it said…
“For more [...]
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