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The Smart Lemming’s Daily Twitter Digest: November 13, 2009
November 14, 2009 – 12:15 am | No Comment
The Smart Lemming’s Daily Twitter Digest: November 13, 2009

The Smart Lemming 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:

The Smart Lemming’s list of the best …

The Best Podcasts on Management by Harvard Business Review’s Ideacast
November 13, 2009 – 12:35 pm | No Comment
The Best Podcasts on Management by Harvard Business Review’s Ideacast

The Smart Lemming recommends these Harvard Business Review podcasts on management:

HBR IdeaCast:How to Manage the Alpha Male
HBR IdeaCast 6: Make Better Decisions & Retain Your Best People During Change with David Garvin
HBR IdeaCast …

The Smart Lemming’s Daily Twitter Digest: October 22, 2009
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The Smart Lemming’s Daily Twitter Digest: October 22, 2009

The Smart Lemming 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:

Moving down the career ladder? How to …

The Smart Lemming’s Daily Twitter Digest: October 12, 2009
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The Smart Lemming’s Daily Twitter Digest: October 12, 2009

The Smart Lemming 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:

How to Start Working Before You’re Hired …

The Smart Lemming’s Daily Twitter Digest: October 9, 2009
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The Smart Lemming’s Daily Twitter Digest: October 9, 2009

The Smart Lemming 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:

10 Principles of the New Business Intelligence …

The Smart Lemming’s Daily Twitter Digest: October 6, 2009
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The Smart Lemming’s Daily Twitter Digest: October 6, 2009

The Smart Lemming 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:

17 Sure-Fire Ways to not Suck at …

The Smart Lemming’s Daily Twitter Digest: October 1, 2009
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The Smart Lemming’s Daily Twitter Digest: October 1, 2009

The Smart Lemming’s 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:

Career Planning using Mind Mapping
Must-read book for …

Speedlinking: Be a Squirrel, Don’t be Eeyore, and Stay off the Layoff List
July 31, 2009 – 3:23 pm | 2 Comments
Speedlinking: Be a Squirrel, Don’t be Eeyore, and Stay off the Layoff List

Why are squirrels’ habits a model for us to follow? If I could turn back time, I would have followed GetRichSlowly.org advice in my early twenties. Need to stay motivated on success, check out this …

Speedlinking: Keeping Your Job, Overcoming Career Setbacks, and Thriving at Work
July 17, 2009 – 11:11 am | No Comment
Speedlinking: Keeping Your Job, Overcoming Career Setbacks, and Thriving at Work

Work is scary right now. We’re in the worst recessions since the Great Depression. Those of you who have jobs feel lucky to have it, but probably hate it. How can you protect your job …

Speedlinking: Assessing Your Work Life, Creating Your Own Luck, and Getting Away for the Holiday
July 3, 2009 – 7:27 am | One Comment
Speedlinking: Assessing Your Work Life, Creating Your Own Luck, and Getting Away for the Holiday

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 …

12 Questions for Career Mindfulness: #7 Have you experienced a painful loyalty?
June 23, 2009 – 11:02 am | 2 Comments
12 Questions for Career Mindfulness: #7 Have you experienced a painful loyalty?

Loyalty. Employers want it. Employees sometimes give it. With loyalty comes implicit trust. Sometimes giving loyalty ends up being a painful experience. Have you experienced a painful loyalty in your career?
When I think of this …

Smart Lemming Rundown: Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss
June 8, 2009 – 3:24 pm | One Comment
Smart Lemming Rundown: Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss

Martha Finney’s book, Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss, offers sound advice for workers, who will go through the sequence of events of facing a layoff, being laid off, and starting a job search after a layoff.

4 Ways to Keep Your Career on Track: Finding Hidden Clues in Performance Reviews
June 8, 2009 – 9:58 am | 2 Comments
4 Ways to Keep Your Career on Track: Finding Hidden Clues in Performance Reviews

“A number of top managers engage in indirect communication or even delivery messages via third parties…A lot of bosses manage by hinting around [about you or your performance].”
Now that’s a scary statement. Peers can also …

Zen at Work: What are you afraid of?
May 19, 2009 – 12:02 pm | No Comment
Zen at Work: What are you afraid of?

I’ve carried a lot of fear in my past jobs, being too attached to my job and my identity that came with it. Having attachments causes fear which leads to anger right?

Smart Lemming Diary: From Laid-Off Worker to Vice President
May 18, 2009 – 12:48 am | 3 Comments
Smart Lemming Diary: From Laid-Off Worker to Vice President

“There are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.” This is my mantra. It has served me well over the past 25 years, especially on April 22, 2005, when I was officially voted off the …