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Few organizations know how to maximize knowledge worker performance to achieve optimum business results. Most executives focus exclusively on attracting and retaining talented individuals; few bother to ask how they can best support and enhance the performance of the knowledge workers they already employ. To determine how organizations can best enhance the performance of their knowledge workers, the authors studied how high-achievers solve problems and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Susan Cantrell, Thomas H. Davenport | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior

Congratulations! You’re the new boss. And your former colleagues don’t like it.

Content: Article | Author: Patricia Wallington | Source: CIO Magazine | Subject: Career

Recruiters hiring business-school grads see a clear difference between male and female candidates.

Content: Article | Author: Ron Alsop | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subjects: Career, Women in Business

The job interview is the precious period in which you are sized up by a powerful person who may well decide whether or not you get the position you want. You can prepare for the interview just as you do for many another tests and enhance your chances of winning an offer.

Content: Career Information | Author: Marshall Loeb | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Interviewing

Many salespeople should never have been hired in the first place, pointing to a problem with interviewing and evaluation skills. Interestingly, effective interviewing has a lot in common with effective selling technique. In either situation, if you ask the right questions, you’ll be able to make good use of the answers. This article provides you with 21 questions, which would be helpful while interviewing sales … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: David Fellman & Associates | Subjects: Career, Human Resources

This article distinguishes 11 Power Sources. The combination of power sources that yield success differs by organisation. It is important to consider what matters most in your own organisation. The 11 power sources are:
* Role
* Network
* Dedication
* Expertise
* Process
* Customers
* Market
* Leadership
* Safe Hands
* Creativity
* Politics

Content: Article | Author: David West | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior

To adopt O’Toole’s own categories, this is a self-help book not for the many but for the rest of us-those willing to expend intellectual and emotional discipline in planning a life to fulfill one’s potential: the true source of happiness, according to the author. O’Toole, a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute and author of more than a dozen books, confesses to having hungered in … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: James O’Toole | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

How to never let ’em see you sweat. Plus, a list of curveballs that you can prepare for.

Content: Career Information | Author: Steven Richards | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Interviewing

Badbossology.com features completely free access to over 1200 articles and resources on solving problems with difficult managers.

Content: Online Resource | Source: The CMR Group | Subjects: Career, Miscellaneous

A complete plan for getting the mentoring you need.

Content: Article | Authors: Margaret Heffernan, Saj-nicole Joni | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Career

More people have used the Internet to participate in an online group than to read news or even to buy something. Online social networks have enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years, and every major Internet portal now offers some kind of social networking or “blogging” tool to its users. But these tools are not just recreational – they are rapidly becoming essential tools for business. … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: David Teten, Scott Allen | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

People who interview job candidates tend to develop distinct personal styles. If you can quickly read an interviewer’s style and establish rapport, you will appear more confident and knowledgeable. Learn about six common types you might encounter.

Content: Career Information | Author: Doug Hardy | Source: Monster | Subject: Interviewing

Learn what recruiters are doing behind the scenes through the holiday season and get some insights into the executive recruiting world.

Content: Career Information | Authors: Perri Capell, William L. Handler | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Job Search

As the years go by, we resign ourselves to the pessimistic view that “dreams are just dreams”. And yet, for IESE Professor Luis Huete, dreams are essential to a full life, which consists essentially of developing and mobilizing personal resources to attain inner and outer abundance. In the book “Construye tu sueño” (“Build your Dream”), Huete invites us to identify the factors that determine how … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Luis Huete | Source: IESE Insight | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Published in October 2005, Good, Green Jobs is GreenBiz.com’s go-to guide to landing the environmental job of your dreams. The distinction between “mainstream” and “environmental” fields is a thing of the past; find out why your ideal job might be located in an unexpected sector. This briefing is chock-full of resources and tools to help you navigate your job search successfully, from composing a killer … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Source: GreenBiz.com | Subjects: Career Info, Job Search

Emotional intelligence has become a popular topic in the business press in recent years. This article help leaders understand and develop emotional intelligence competencies. This study compares scores on Benchmarks to self-reported emotional intelligence as measured by the BarOn EQ-i. It shows that the key leadership skills and perspectives are related to aspects of emotional intelligence and the absence of emotional intelligence was related to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jean Brittain Leslie, Judith L. Steed, Kelly Hannum, Marian N. Ruderman | Source: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) | Subjects: Career, Leadership

From business to politics, those who command attention are masters at developing and delivering their message. Never before have so many CEO’s, executives and experts shared the secrets behind their dazzling presentation skills. You’ll hear directly from Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz; Intuit founder Scott Cook; personal finance guru Suze Orman; Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor; Corcoran Group founder Barbara Corcoran; as well as many others. You’ll … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Carmine Gallo | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

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Someday your current job will be a line entry on your resume. Under the entry, you’ll have two or three bullets to describe your major accomplishments. “Did a good job of doing what always was done” can’t be one of them.

There is a lot of power in reflecting at the beginning of a new job on what you want the two or three bullets … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Career

Whether inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing that I can do is to make sure it finds me at work.

Content: Quotation | Source: Good Luck: Create the Conditions for Success in Life & Business | Subjects: Innovation, Work