5 Things To Know Before Accepting A Job Offer
Whether you’re starting your career or looking to improve your present one, you need to start looking out for yourself. After all, if you’re not for yourself, who will look out for you? But on the other hand if you’re only out for yourself, what kind of person are you? The wisdom behind these questions …
Use the “F” Word to Boost Your Creativity
Could failure lead you to your next success?
“It is not the critic who counts. It is not the man who sits and points out how the doer of deeds could have done things better and how he falls and stumbles. The credit goes to the man in the arena whose face is marred with …
Get Known as “Top Talent” Using These Five Traits
If you want to get hired and stay hired you need to know how hiring managers think. Since Google is setting the standard for attracting, hiring (and paying) top talent, examining and understanding their hiring standards and practices could help you even if you have no interest in working there.
Let’s start with GPA’s and …
How Do the Happiest People Find Their Career?
“Do what you believe in”—Greg Baldwin, President of VolunteerMatch
I recently had the privilege to interview Greg Baldwin, President of VolunteerMatch: the award-winning VolunteerMatch.org service and the Web’s largest volunteer engagement network. Greg joined the founding team in 1998 as its Chief Imagination Officer to build a website to make it easier for good people …
How To Turn On Your Top Employees At Work?
“Simplifying organizations is the groundwork for competitive advantage”-–Yves Morieux, senior partner and managing director in BCG’s Paris office. (He is an expert in corporate transformation)
Despite breathtaking advances in communication technology, many people still feel miserable and disengaged at work. Companies try many things to remedy this situation by sponsoring affiliation events, celebrations and leadership …
Ten Minutes Per Day Could Improve Your Personal Brand
Let’s be honest with ourselves, because most of us are busy with work and family, we don’t always have something interesting to say. Even if we think our own work is interesting, it may not be of interest to others. For many people, the thought of making small talk can be extremely stressful. If you’re …
Why Certain Givers Outperform Takers?
I recently spoke with Adam Grant, who is the youngest tenured professor and single highest-rated teacher at the Wharton School. He is a leading expert on success, work motivation and helping and giving behaviors. Grant has presented for leaders at organizations such as Google, the NFL, Merck, Pixar, Goldman Sachs, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, The United …
Could Today’s Bullies Be Tomorrow’s Corporate Executives?
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, is an outstanding advocate for women’s workplace equality. In her best selling book, Lean In: Women, Work And The Will To Lead, Sheryl provides daunting statistics that show women aren’t getting what they deserve in today’s workplace. One of the reasons women don’t get what they deserve, according to Sandberg, …
Hang Out With People Who Bring Out Your Best!
It’s natural for people to maintain friendships that are convenient, but sometimes the people we associate with aren’t necessarily people who bring out our best qualities. Friends of convenience are those people who happen to be easiest to associate with because of their physical proximity to you either at work, in your neighborhood, building, dorm …
How Much Growth is Healthy? When is Maintenance Better?
We’re a society that’s obsessed with change and growth, and in many ways that’s a great thing. When a person challenges himself to learn new skills, acquire new positive behaviors, adjust to transitions, assume new responsibilities, he typically becomes broader, more productive and emotionally mature. While this is true for most people, it’s also true …