Want better work-life balance? Learn from Denmark!

3 of my fellow Danes, Camilla Kring, Vivi Bach Pedersen and Anders Raastrup Kristensen have written a report on how Danish businesses have become more productive by focusing on work-life…

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Manager Hirings

My friend sent me an interesting post from the Xero blog which describes how a good company can quickly fall apart. The Bozo Explosion colourfully described by Steve Jobs is what happens to…

- 1 day, 4 hours, 22 minutes ago

Seven Ways to Drive Your Ideas Upward

Being able to influence upwards allows your ideas to be heard and implemented. This directly enhances your value because you are the owner of that idea. Yet how do you break through the…

- 1 day, 15 hours, 53 minutes ago

Career Success: Tweet #21

The other day I saw a great quote from Margaret Thatcher Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;…

- 1 day, 19 hours, 24 minutes ago

How to Create a "Win" Book to Sell Yourself in the Interview, Pt II

This is the second and final installment in a two-part series on how to create a “win” book to sell yourself in a job interview. If you missed the first piece, you can read it here. Take…

- 1 day, 22 hours, 12 minutes ago

10 Tips to Improve Verbal Communication in Your Job Search

Every situation you are in during a job search requires verbal communication so here are some pointers to improve your ability to communicate with others when networking, at a job fair, in…

- 1 day, 22 hours, 53 minutes ago

Voice of Experience: Neeti Bhalla, Managing Director and Head of Tactical Asset Allocation, Private Wealth, Goldman Sachs

By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Women should aim to maintain a sense of authenticity while rising through the ranks of the investment industry, says Neeti Bhalla, Managing Director…

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Personal Branding Weekly – 17 June 2013

Today kicks off Small Business Week! I’m grateful to have opened my business nine years ago and have always looked back. It’s been an adventure of a lifetime! So, I’ve…

- 1 day, 23 hours, 54 minutes ago

Neutralizing Change Resisters Who Are Holding Back Your Progress

Change is essential and inevitable for all organizations, but some people are better at coping with it than others.  Dana Brownlee is the founder of Professionalism Matters, a…

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Monday puzzle: How a startup is like rolling a 100-sided die

image by Gurney5, CC BY 2.0 Consider the following challenging mathematical puzzle. You roll a 100-sided die. You then have two choices: (1) you can cash out and get paid the dollar amount…

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