Are You from Another Planet?
Before you talk to a recruiter or hiring manager, ask yourself: “Am I from another planet?” Because you might be, when it comes to expectations, environment, hierarchy, and all sorts of corporate culture.
The number one reason why most people lose out on bigger salaries, plus a moving allowance, expense account and even a down …
How to Be More Persuasive at Work
Little is accomplished alone. To achieve complex goals, we often must rely upon the hard work and cooperation from those around us.
Therefore, our ability to be persuasive will either further our capacity to lead a successful, lucrative career or it will greatly hinder our odds of achieving our full potential.
By learning how to …
Have You Made A Really Big Mistake?
The truth about your success is pretty grim. Success shines a light on your mistakes. Success often comes from the lessons you learned. They are most often carved out of experiences where you did not win. Where you lost, but got back up. Where you failed, but stood up to take another chance.
Your victories …
Getting Your Small Business to Perform Like a Champion
It was a painful experience for me last week sitting in Madison Square Garden watching my favorite sports team the New York Rangers play for the National Hockey League’s Eastern Conference Championship seeking to earn a trip to play for the Stanley Cup.
My Rangers were shut out on home ice, 2-0 after a record …
Can I Borrow a Cup of … Internet?
This is the season of excuses.
Actually, the season of excuses occurs more frequently than the ones that come to mind more readily: winter, spring, summer or fall. The season of excuses is familiar to every student and every teacher. It would shock and appall those who are funding education, loaning money for it or …
What Do Best Places to Work Have in Common?
Everyone knows the Best Places to Work list which is released every year. If you look at that list, we mainly see tech companies like Google or Microsoft and then we see the big consulting firms like Accenture or PWC. However, sometimes we can also come across with companies we have never even heard of. …
The 3 Job Interview Questions You Never Expect
Would you be shocked into dumbfounded silence, if a hiring manager asked you these three questions in a job interview?
What have you invented? What is your greatest achievement in life? When have you stood up to authority?What? These are BIG questions, taken from a real interview. They get at the meaning of your …
3 Steps to Improve Workplace Communication
Every problem small business owners face in their workplace can be directly linked to a communication issue.
If you were to ask employees in a workplace what things need to be improved communication is always among the top three answers.
As a number of small business CEOs told me at a seminar and networking session …
Small Business Owners: How to Get Your Life Back
The first post of this series, Big Challenges for Small Business Owners, examined the three biggest challenges owners face: people, finances, and time. In the The Small Business People Puzzle: Part 1 and Part 2, we looked deeper into the challenge of finding, selecting, attracting, orienting, training, motivating, and retaining the right people to ensure …
How Small Business Leaders Create Consistent Championship Employee Performance
Being a lifelong sports fan and a season ticket holder for the New York Rangers National Hockey League team, has provided me with a lot of opportunities to compare success in sports to success in business.
Recently my focus has been on comparing how sports teams manage the performance of their athletes versus how employee …