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Take Five Steps Towards a Better Career by Being an Original

Have you ever gone to a party and discovered that you had dressed quite differently from everyone else? How did that make you feel? For some people, this experience would be the height of embarrassment. For others, noting the differences might just draw a slight smile. No copycats need apply to these people! By just looking around most organizations you can quickly tell whether the norm is fitting in or standing out. Which work environment do you prefer?

Primary topic: Management Skills

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To Move Forward in Your Career, Work with a Servant Professor — Helpful Methods for Locating One

What is your image of a graduate-school professor? Based on my student experiences, I think of an older person standing behind a raised lectern, well separated from the large number of students who are madly taking notes on the words that flow so composedly from the oracle’s lips. Such a scene feels a bit like being present at the fountain of all knowledge.

Primary topic: Management Skills

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What Is Your Great Opportunity? - Combine Preparation with Favorable Circumstances

Many people haven’t yet found a great opportunity. In some cases they don’t even know that they are missing one. What a shame! Just in case you know someone like that, let me describe what I mean by a great opportunity so you can pass along the information: A great opportunity lifts you and those around you to greater heights of accomplishment, connection, and satisfaction. In the abstract those characteristics may do little to inform you beyond increasing your interest. Let me share three personal experiences to explain what I mean.

Primary topic: Management Skills

Management Skills

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Grow Your Business by Providing Sensible Reasons to Purchase Now

Give most executives the choice between some wild “blow-out” price-based promotion or taking time to first locate powerful new reasons to buy that are good for one and all, and the circus will soon be hired to tout the latest short-term deal. While such approaches can clearly add sales, doing so can also cause long-term damage that can more than offset the short-term gains. Here are three possible reasons for such contradictory results:

Primary topic: Management Skills

Management Skills

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Seven Lessons for Profiting from Gaining the Right Experience

Almost everyone would like to be more successful in earning a living. Yet many people report that putting forth greater effort leads to actually accomplishing less. How can that be? Well, it takes learning from experience to become more successful. If you seek experience just by trying things on your own, it takes a lot of mistakes before you learn enough lessons to avoid mistakes often enough to mark an improvement. By putting in more effort, you initially just increase the day-to-day frequency of mistakes. Oops!

Primary topic: Management Skills

Management Skills

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