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What Should I Do with My Life and How do I Get There?

Friday, April 25, 2008

… And How Do I Get There? I’m giving a speech in April to a group of postdoctoral scientists at a career forum. The steering committee for the event asked if I could cover the question, “What should I do with my life and how do I get there?” Sure, I said, I can easily [...]

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Service as Its Own Reward

Saturday, January 19, 2008

A new year brings new possibilities and the promise of our potential fulfilled A new promise is like a jolt of caffeine: that initial high we experience May be followed by a lull – a low – a miss in expectation So goes the phenomenon of life and existing dualities Here’s what I have learned [...]

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How to Be an Attractive Candidate to Employers

Sunday, November 4, 2007

You change jobs for many different reasons. The most obvious reason for considering a change is that your current job no longer gives you a level of satisfaction that you expect in return for your effort. You also believe that there is another job out there that would give you a higher level of satisfaction [...]

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Danger of Data Dumping During the Interview

Thursday, November 1, 2007

You’re supposed to talk about yourself during an interview, right? Not if you talked too much about yourself, according to Joann Lublin’s WSJ column that began with an employer complaining about a candidate’s 3-4 minute “long-winded” response. The assumption is that someone who was so long-winded was probably unproductive compared to a concise professional. In [...]

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Is the Movie Volver Really A Good Example for Management?

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Earlier this month, BBC ran an article about Italian consultants who urge management to watch more movies to learn the lessons of getting ahead instead of reading business books. I like this recommendation because: 1) I usually read about 10-25% of most of the business books on my shelf 2) Movies engage me in a [...]

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