Career Management Tips – Smart Lemming – Career Management Guide

The Smart Lemming curates career management tweets, saving you time by highlighting career resources from news, articles, and blog posts on business life, career management, and leadership. Below are the list of tweets sent out on February 7: Business Life Top 20 Reasons Presentations Suck and How To Fix Them How to Recover From a [...]

I decided to launch a podcast to share what I’ve learned, and how I’ve used this knowledge in managing my career. This week I discuss three must-read career management books and explain why you should be reading them.

January 27, 2006 There are times when you’re working so hard and fast that you forget how powerful a particular key stakeholder is in your company. When you’re in the weeds, raise your head, look around, and communicate with key stakeholders. Because I failed to do this, I lost political capital this week with one [...]

The SmartLemming.com sent out the following tweets, recommending these additional resources from news, articles, and posts on business life, career management, management and leadership, and women in business: Before you execute your next strategy, review the five reasons strategies fail Take your blinders off, learn something today There’s a business lesson here: Washington Post to [...]

December 26, 2005 Are you following how I performed a Marketing Department Workload Analysis to demonstrate and pitch my need for more marketing resources? What were the findings in my Marketing Department Workload Analysis? What was in my presentation to my CEO and peers on the Management Team to move closer to getting more resources? [...]

September 1, 2005 August was a fun month. I can’t remember a time when I enjoyed working this much. I’ve loved hitting the ground running, knowing that I could quickly provide sales tools for our direct sales team as well as our new partners. I have confidence that being in charge of Marcom will go [...]

August 27, 2005 Lessons Learned on VARs This week was filled with ups and downs, while we’re waiting for our VAR relationship to become final. This is the first VAR that Tom has negotiated, but his negotiations skills are outstanding. I think the only lesson learned that he would cite is that he had too [...]

“Please don’t promote me! It’s stressful.” First of all, what?! I always felt like doing cartwheels or something when I was promoted. When I read “Please Don’t Promote Me” by Joseph Weber, I did a double take. According to Weber, climbing the corporate ladder brings on vertigo: “In a recent survey, nearly one in five [...]