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Service as Its Own Reward

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 [...]

How to Be an Attractive Candidate to Employers

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 [...]

5 Things on Your To-Do List for Excellence in 2007

Now that we’re entering Fall of 2007, here are five things that the smart career professional or entrepreneur should check off their to-do list: Review your goals. Are you on track with the goals you had set for yourself at the beginning of the year? Are these goals still valid? Review what you’ve achieved. If [...]

Character, Trust, and Courage

If I could distill the business life “lessons learned” in a post, I would sum up my past few years’ experience as follows: Character – Trust – Courage. Character. Before you even bother with a business plan, before you think about the financials, ask yourself if you have the character to be in business. For [...]

Do You Have Entrepreneurial Personality?

Kelly Spors at the Wall Street Journal asked if a test could really predict whether you have the personality for entrepreneurialship or be successful as an entrepreneur. A Harvard professor who studied entrepreneurs came up with this test, which I took. Here’s my result: Since I’m currently an entrepreneur, I’m not surprised to see the [...]