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This short-and-sweet article briefly but eloquently poses the ultimate 6 ways to take control of your career development. Whether you want to strengthen your skills or identify your weaknesses or whichever your purpose would entail, this article addresses 6 methods to steadily take control of personal career development even if you do not have the backup support from your company/employer.
I have owned my own business since 1985, so I have been a leader far longer than I have been led. In fact, I have owned my own businesses for so long (thirty-years this year) that I have often been referred to as “uniquely unemployable”. I am not certain I would agree though, because I…
Your most valuable business asset may not be the raw materials, cash reserves, or even the technology found within your company. It’s the knowledge of the people on your team. Yet a good number of executives overlook the value of this collective knowledge, commonly called Intellectual Capital. Case in point: Several years ago, I attended…
Last night, my family saw the 1994 movie “Don Juan DeMarco” on Netflix with Johnny Depp and Marlon Brando. It was funny, heartwarming, sensual, intelligent and very well acted. We were transported from our everyday world of people struggling with their desire to get more out of life and work to a place where life…
The Words Matter Movement involves being a practitioner of careful, thoughtful and deliberate positive communication. It is so easy to speak without thinking. To not genuinely listen and connect with people. When words are used in the wrong way it can be devastating. Words are container of power. So, how are you using yours? Words…
Many-tasking My goal in writing this is to be educational and help others learn from my successful experiments, but I’m also hoping to coin a new term. The term is “Many-tasking.” Many-tasking turns multi-tasking inside out: Where multi-tasking is dividing one person’s time across many tasks, usually very inefficiently, many-tasking is having many people focus…
Is it ever a wise thing in business to cut your losses and walk away? That’s the question on everyone’s lips as Ford sells Volvo to Geely. Some would say Ford got more out of the deal as they gained more technology from Volvo’s safety engineering. But the harsh truth is, that this was probably the…
