Smart Lemming Rundown Podcast: March 1, 2010 (Episode 4) [8:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThe Smart Lemming Rundown is a shortcut to career management success. I explain how these three recommended business books help you learn the new science of rapid change by thinking a little while changing a lot, overcome the conflict between your rational mind and your emotional mind to accomplish transformational change as a person, worker, manager, or leader, and change your old approach to innovation to become a disruptive innovator.
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Tips, tricks, news and reviews all about how to manage your career.
You can lead a horse to water…
A Smart Lemming’s journey from being laid-off worker to a Vice President of Sales Operations & Marketing.
The Smart Lemming’s Daily and Weekly Twitter Digests
Do you know what you’ve accomplished in your job and career? Sometimes we need to remember our accomplishments to be happy at work. We must acknowledge that we have evolved our knowledge and skill set …
September 15, 2005
Fast Start off the Blocks
After a fast and furious three days in our office, Jonathan hit the ground running. It was great to see him in action, as I prepared him for his …
Your Productivity Tools
When you’re fresh out undergraduate or graduate school, you’ll most likely need to use basic tools to do your work. I’m referring to Microsoft Office Professional Edition and related Microsoft products. If you …
Do you use the same work tools or ways of thinking over and over again only to get stale or uninspired results? One way to be happier at work is to keep learning new things …
Do you have your own tools or templates that you use to get great results? I’ve collected so many tools and templates over the course of my career that I can pull them out as …
September 13, 2005
I woke up yesterday morning thinking it was Sunday morning. I looked at my clock, noticing it was 7:30 am. I couldn’t wait to make my coffee, but then it struck me, “Oh …
Do you know how to think through a problem? Having fun at work is sometimes as simple as knowing how to identify and solve problems. How many times have you gone to your boss with …
September 10, 2005
Play to Your Strengths
When all those business books recommend that you should go with your strengths, they’re right. Yes, we should work on our weaknesses so we’re not incompetent. But it’s those strengths …
Think about your boss’s responsibilities in managing you. What do you see?
Have you thought about what your boss does in his or her job? Perhaps he or she manages several functions, like marketing and …
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 …
“Bullying wasn’t okay in elementary school and it isn’t okay now.”
Sadly, bullies are alive and well in the American workforce. 37% of the U.S. workforce (an est. 54 million Americans) report being bullied at work.
With so much valuable information on personal brands in book and blogs, don’t lose the forest for the trees. Personal branding ≠ career management. I repeat, personal branding by itself is NOT managing your career.
What it is: The Levity Effect – Why It Pays to Lighten Up
What it’s about: The Levity Effect uses science to reveal how of fun and humor in work drives business results.
Rating: 4 stars
The …
The Smart Lemming sent out the following tweets, recommending these additional resources from news, articles, and posts on business life, career management, and management:
Business life:
Employers & employees: read this post on social media throughout throughout …
The Smart Lemming recommends these INSEAD Knowledgecasts (podcasts) on Leadership, Management, and Women in Business:
Leadership
INSEAD Knowledgecast n°23: Putting Leaders on the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries
INSEAD Knowledgecast n°25:The Experience Trap with Kishore Sengupta and …
