Articles related to: career
26: Job Hunting On A Shoestring
Looking for a new job can be a costly affair especially if you are unemployed and looking as opposed to employed and looking.However with some planning and prioritizing, you can keep your expenses dow..
27: Being a Caregiver
Following is part two of an interview with Phyllis Slater, owner of Slater Solutions LLC. Ms. Slater has devoted years to providing coaching and concierge services to the working caregiver and aging ..
28: Overcome Divisions to Joyfully Connect People and Accomplish More as a Constructive Business Leader
In explaining success, some people are quick to assert that "It's all in who you know." But how many act on that observation to get to know more people? Relatively few, I believe. More often, this sta..
29: How to Enjoy More Entrepreneurial Success by Increasing Your Know-How with Practical Learning
Many people would like to start their own businesses and prosper. Unfortunately, few people are properly prepared to succeed as entrepreneurs. Before starting a new business, gaining any practical kno..
30: Respond to the Right Priorities: Bring People Together for Important Common Purposes
Novelist P.G. Wodehouse humorously portrayed the lightly populated English county of Shropshire as a sort of modern-day Eden where the worst thing that could happen to anyone was to slip on a banana p..
31: Learn While on the Job: A High School Graduate Climbs into Top Management and Earns an MBA
More people are limited by their beliefs than by the realities of the opportunities. Here are two questions to help you check on your beliefs:1. Do you believe that only those with advanced degrees ca..
32: Build a Better Future by Becoming More Flexible
In planning their businesses and careers, many people make the mistake of believing that the future will be almost exactly like the past. Applying 20-20 hindsight, they carefully prepare to avoid repe..
33: Project Managers: Set Reporting Dates to Focus Your Efforts and Provide a Sense of Urgency
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.--Niels BohrWhen I launched the 400 Year Project (a program to demonstrate ways to make 400 years of normal improvements in only 20 years..
34: Accelerate Learning by Making as Many Inexpensive New Mistakes as You Can
From error to error, one discovers the truth.--Sigmund FreudWhen I started the project to find how to make 400 years worth of normal improvements in only 20 years (the 400 Year Project), I had no idea..
35: Use Your Influence: Nine Tips to Combat Tough Boss Syndrome
Do you have a boss who...Changes priorities often, giving you one direction then suddenly sending you off in a different direction entirely?Changes priorities but doesn't inform you? When you finish a..
36: Questions and Answers about Career Transitions
Q: Who is James O. Armstrong?
I am an author of a book about career transitions for baby boomers which came out last spring. The name of the book is "Now What? Discovering Your New Life and Ca..
37: Turning a Layoff into Success
Baby boomers are probably disadvantaged by being older. While our society, in both the U.S. and Canada, is largely beyond the point of discrimination by race, gender, nationality or religious pr..
38: Preliminary Job Interview Question Guide
At one point or another unless we are trust fund babies or are lucky enough to not work, we will have to go through the interview process. Now usually when people go through the interview process they..
39: How Do You Focus on Excellence?
In 1995, I started a project to help the whole world make improvements at 20 times the usual rate. I knew it was a good idea, but I wasn't so sure that anyone else would think so. How would I pursue t..
40: Learn to Build an Ideal, Secure Lifestyle
Do you already enjoy an ideal, secure lifestyle? Here are a few questions to help you check on whether you do:Think back to 6:30 p.m. on your last day of work. Were you at home? If not, why weren't yo..
41: In Your Next Chapter, Caring for an Aging Parent
As you begin to transition into the next chapter of your life, other considerations will begin to emerge on your horizon. Among those factors entering into your new equation may be the consideration ..
42: Be Prepared to Succeed: Do Your Homework before Starting New Businesses and Jobs
My first business school course was in marketing management. The professor told us that most marketing problems occurred because those in charge of marketing failed to do their homework about what cus..
43: Smoke Out and Eliminate Pesky Long-Term Problems
One of my college roommates often invited girl friends to visit for the weekend. It was challenge for him to make a good impression during those visits because my roommate's clothes, snacks, cigarette..
44: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Making a Lateral Career Move
The more educated ask the same question in a little more sophisticated way: is my career my calling? Is my occupation my true vocation? Honestly, unless the answer comes out in the affirmative, you sh..
45: Check Out the Top First to See How to Get There
I went to law school, but ended up taking some business school courses in marketing. I learned that I enjoyed business thinking more than legal analysis and drafting. I didn't want to spend two years ..
46: Stretch Beyond What You Can Hope to Succed at to Learn the Most
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.--Yogi BerraAt age 21, I was blessed with a great mentor, legendary Harvard Business Review, Ernie Frawley. He contin..
47: So, what motivates federal employees and others to move during retirement?
So, what motivates federal employees and others to move during retirement? While there may be other factors, this list covers a number of the considerations many of our fellow baby boomers and other..
48: You Never Know What You Can Do Until You Improvise
Improvisation is too good to be left to chance.--Paul SimonImprovisation is essential because it keeps you focused on trying to accomplish something rather than being distracted by hurdles and challen..
49: Is Governor Sarah Palin a Unique 21st Century Feminist?
This year's Presidential and Vice-Presidential election spotlights the important contributions made by women in our society - be they single or married, mothers or not, young or old, rich or poor, fro..
50: Learn and Love Your Work
Do you work mainly to earn a living? Or do you love what you do so much you would do it for no pay?If you just work to earn a living, how would your life be different if you loved your work instead?I ..
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