1074 Posts Found

You can never outwork a problem. You have to outthink it.

Content: Quotation | Author: A.G. Lafley | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Problems / Solutions, Work

Too busy to keep up on changes and current trends in your field? These 6 experts offer smart advice you can quickly implement, even with your busy schedule.

Content: Article | Author: Dorie Clark | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

People involved in “risky work”, as opposed to “repetitive work,” face three challenges: to create, to communicate, and to collaborate.

Content: Quotation | Author: Richard P. Gabriel | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior, Work

A question John McCallum’s MBA students inevitably explore with the CEOs who visit his class is the personal characteristics that are most likely to get in the way of a successful executive career. Over many visiting CEOs and over many years, there is remarkable commonality in the responses: denial, fear, greed and pride, a kind of four horsemen of the executive apocalypse.

Content: Article | Author: John McCallum | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

No one is looking out for your career anymore. You must find meaning, locate opportunities, sell yourself, and plan for failure, calamity, and unexpected disasters. You must develop a set of skills that makes you able to earn an income in as many ways as possible. You must create your own body of work as you operate in different organizational systems and structures.

Content: Career Information | Author: Pamela Slim | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Career Info

Mastering three imperatives is the way managers advance from being basically competent to fully effective. Readers will learn what those imperatives are and what they need to do to exhibit mastery of them–to go from good to great.

Content: Article | Authors: Kent L. Lineback, Linda A. Hill | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Personal Development

Developing as a leader is a difficult endeavor. It’s not easy, but I’ve developed a leadership development model that has now proven to work with thousands and thousands of people. This model is just eight steps: Ask, Listen, Think, Thank, Respond, Involve, Change, Follow Up.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Personal Development

As you gear up for an interview, you’re likely agonizing over the questions you’ll be asked, the answers you’ll give, and how to make the best possible first impression. Most of your preparation will probably focus on the time you spend face-to-face with your interviewer. But to be 100% prepared, there are a few things you’ll want to clarify before you show up in your … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: Katie Douthwaite | Source: LifeHacker | Subject: Interviewing

The key to preparing for behavioral interview questions is to ensure that you have proper coverage for all of the core behavioral question types. To put it another way, you want to make sure that you have a story that applies to every question your interviewer might ask. What you really want to avoid is being prompted with a question you didn’t prepare … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Matthew Kuo | Source: MBA Excel | Subjects: Career, Free Stuff / Tools

A classic problem of smart, successful people is Adding Too Much Value. This bad habit can be defined as the overwhelming desire to add our two cents to every discussion. Adding Too Much Value is common among leaders who are used to running the show. It is extremely difficult for successful people to listen to other people tell them something that they already know without … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Personal Development

We all know networking has the potential to dramatically enhance our careers; making new connections can introduce us to valuable new information, job opportunities, and more. But despite that fact, many of us are doing it wrong.

Content: Article | Author: Dorie Clark | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Perhaps the most challenging part of the job hunting process is writing an effective cover letter. There’s so much conflicting advice out there, it’s hard to know where to start. Indeed, in an age of digital communication, many might question whether you even need a cover letter anymore. Here’s how to give hiring managers what they’re looking for.

Content: Career Information | Author: Amy Gallo | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Cover Letters

Here are five lessons to a dramatically more successful life from a renowned Wharton professor.

Content: Article | Author: G. Richard Shell | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

According to a recent study, recruiters spend an average of 6.2 seconds looking at an individual resume. Working with that kind of attention span and operating with limited space, resume writers need to make every word count. With this in mind, it might be time to a take a critical look at your resume or CV (or even your LinkedIn profile) and root out terms … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: Kentin Waits | Source: WiseBread | Subject: Resumes

Is it more important to say the right thing or act the right way? Professor Gruenfeld provides compelling research about how we perceive power in our relationships, examining the words we use, non-verbal cues and the ways in which we communicate. She shares how we can most effectively get our message across.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Deborah H. Gruenfeld | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

The basic thing you need for a long and varied career is to have a core love or interest that you can really develop so that you have confidence and really know what you’re doing. You need to learn one thing well before you start branching out. Everything else relates to the approach you take with your basic core skill.

Content: Quotation | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

The thing that Oprah Winfrey talks about all the time is that we do things either with love or fear. If you’re afraid, you can really mess up. If you just love what you’re doing, whatever happens you’re moving ahead.

Content: Quotation | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Achievement, Attitude, Career, Fear / Doubt, Personal Development

In this interview, Keith Ferrazzi talks about the importance of making a people plan; how to learn to become more generous with those around you, and what to do when your generosity is met with skepticism.

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Adam Grant, Keith Ferrazzi | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

The length of your job interview responses matters more than you might think. Talk too little, and you’re an introverted paranoid/Rainman. Talk too much, and people can’t imagine themselves hanging out with you, which is 95 percent of the interview game. The people interviewing you already like your knowledge, skills and abilities. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have been brought in for a live interview with … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: Kris Dunn | Subject: Interviewing

The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Career, Personal Development