Why do new executives bring in their own team when come into a company? Is it easy to get over the hurt and anger of being severed from one of your favorite employers? Does time heal those old wounds of betrayal?
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Are you making decisions based on money or on job title?
Do you find yourself making job decisions because you want a certain salary or title? Job decisions based on these two things feel more like …
Pursuing a Dream Job
Happiness at work. Isn’t that what we’re all striving for? In the back of our minds, we’re thinking, “If I only worked in my dream job, then I’d be happy.” Does …
What it is: Gostick and Elton’s The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance
What it’s about: This updated edition offers invaluable advice for middle managers …
10 Ways to Actively Manage Your Career Now
All the Advice on Happiness You’ll Ever Need in One Post: Mr. Zen, Leo Baubuta, has compiled his favorite articles on happiness. Everyone knows that happiness is a …
The U.S. lost 467,000 jobs in June, pushing the national unemployment rate of 9.5% to its highest point in 26 years. If you still have a job, then now is the time to assess your …
What if you finally got what you always wanted? Perhaps the real question is, “What do you want to do?”
I know that I like building things. I like working wherever I want, whenever I want. …
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 …
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.
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 …
You’re managing a product or service. Can you articulate the compelling reason your customers should buy the product or service? What’s the value proposition? You’re in marketing and have to write key messaging for everything, …
The Smart Lemming sent out the following tweets, recommending these additional resources from news, articles, and posts on business life, career management, and management:
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Employers & employees: read this post on social media throughout throughout …
