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12 Questions for Career Mindfulness: #5 Write about the Book that Changed Everything
When you think about it, is there a book that you read, read again, and then again? For me, that one book is Kotler on Marketing: How to Create, Win, and Dominate Markets by Philip Kotler. Before Beyond the Core: Expand Your Market Without Abandoning Your Rootsand Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market [...]
Read more →Smart Lemming Action Items: Think Big Manifesto, Becoming CEO Material, Lessons Learned by Recession-Proof Companies
Smart Lemming Actions Items lists 10 New Book Releases to Proactively Manage Your Career Now.
Read more →Smart Lemming Career Management Brief: How the Mighty Fall, Volunteering, Success at Work
SmartLemming.com highlights five career management articles on how to hit the ground running in your new job, how volunteering can lead to your dream job, how meetings are useful contrary to public opinion, how white collar workers can find the best blue collar work, and how the five stages of decline impact great companies.
Read more →Speedlinking: Taylor Swift, Advice to College Grads, and How to Survive at Work
How can you not like Taylor Swift? She’s likable. She’s versatile. And she dreams big. We should all take a page out of her career management playbook. Speaking of young talented people, Suzy Welch has advice for college graduates, entering the workforce during this recession. Today’s economic uncertainty has changed how we manage our career, [...]
Read more →Smart Lemming Diary: Acquisition Talks and Marketing Deliverables Progress
August 11, 2005 I opted out of yesterday’s meeting with the potential acquirer of Tom’s company; he was very pleased with the way the meeting went. It was only four weeks ago, when Tom first went down to meet the CEO of this privately held company. Early last week, talks picked up again, resulting in [...]
Read more →12 Questions for Career Mindfulness: #4 Write about a Phone Call that Changed Everything
The fourth question of the 12 Questions for Career Mindfulness Series is meant to remind you of something that changed your life and the course of your career. Was there one phone call that changed everything for you? Did you receive a phone call from a friend of a friend, who wants to network with [...]
Read more →Low Performers: Both Sides of the Coin, Being One and Managing One
Low performers negatively impact coworkers and companies. No one aspires to be a low performer. Sometimes it just happens to knowledge workers, who are unhappy with their jobs, employers, or lives. How we know if we’re an underachiever at work? If you’re a manager, how to manage one? According a LeadershipIQ survey, employees say that [...]
Read more →Napping Your Way To The Top
I’m like a little kid, when it comes to sleeping. I hate sleeping. There’s 101 other things that I’d rather be doing than sleeping. I try to remember there negative effects of sleeping deprivation, so I can make peace with sleeping every night: Insulin rises to pre-diabetes levels There’s an increase in heart disease We [...]
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