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Encouragement or Fostering Entitlement?

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Nick’s comment on a Richard Branson interview at Business 2.0 magazine caught my eye. Basically, Branson said that when you want to turn someone down, you should be polite enough to turn the person down yourself, instead of ignoring the email. Branson referenced two entrepreneurs who get requests from people all the time and who [...]

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Too Much Information Too Few Big Ideas

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Nick Smith asked where all the “crazy ones” have gone in our Web 2.0 world that has yielded too much information with too few “big ideas”. He observed that most of the popular posts shared around the world appeared superficial, and wondered how this information help people or help enlighten the rest of us. I [...]

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Are You Running Away or Running Toward?

Monday, April 30, 2007

When you are assessing your next move – whether this be business, career, or life – you want to ask yourself this question: “Am I running away from where I am, or am I running toward where I want to be?” Many people do not think about the difference between the two. Even more people [...]

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Quality of Money You Earn

Thursday, March 29, 2007

How much would you want to earn? $500,000 a year – or – $250,000 a year No brainer, right? Who wouldn’t want to earn $500,000 a year instead of $250,000 a year? But wait. Let’s add the following qualifiers to the amounts: $500,000 a year, traveling the road warrior rate (usually over 75% time away [...]

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Career Path or Available Jobs

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

When I was researching about career paths many years ago, I made the same flawed assumption that many people still make today: I was really researching “available jobs” and not a “career path.” My confusing a career path with job openings made for inefficient professional development. I put on mental blinders during the exploratory stage [...]

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