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5 Common Mistakes That Can Kill Your Promotion
You work hard for a promotion and give it your best shot. But what if your hard work isn’t enough? What if you’re not doing the right things? Worse yet, could you be making these mistakes without knowing it and killing your chances?
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How to Build Your Network in 5 Minutes a Day
Your network is one of your most important assets. But how can you fit networking activities into your already overstretched day? Use this simple strategy. It has generated the most “quick wins” for me and it will for you, too.
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9 Capabilities to Achieve Career Success
At any given point in your career, people will be forming opinions on whether you’ve “got what it takes” to make it to the next level. Which of these capabilities would make the biggest difference for you if you worked on it now?
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Changing Careers?
Changing one’s career path takes initiative, and often it’s not straightforward. However, the end result is worth the effort – it’s just a matter of getting from here to there. Based on my own recent experience in changing careers, the...
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This Year’s Best New Year Resolutions
I was having lunch with friends last week and the topic of New Year resolutions came up. I defiantly (or more accurately, defensively) stated that I hadn't "bothered" to come up with any: I never seem to make any worth sticking to or else end...
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Are Boardroom Quotas A Good Idea?
France is joining Norway by adopting the quota approach for achieving gender parity on Boards. ForbesWoman/Forbes.com has asked for views on whether the US should follow suit, and heated debate has ensued -- and keep in mind this is a LinkedIn...
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How Can They Be Sure?*
Highly educated young women are reportedly intending to opt out of the career achievement cycle. Is this next generation of women taking too much for granted, or are they wiser than we think?It was not that long ago that women finally won the right to vote...
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Life Lessons From Basketball: On Doing Nothing
We are often told that the first thing is to “do no harm”. What if doing nothing turns out to be harmful? I have often been afraid of doing something wrong, making a wrong move, committing an error. There are times when I have felt literally...
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9 Capabilities to Achieve Success at Any Career Stage
At any given point in your career, people will be forming opinions on whether you’ve “got what it takes” to make it to the next level. When the right people think the answer is yes, your career zooms ahead. But when it’s a no, you’re going to be stuck, at least for a...
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How to Build Your Network in 5 Minutes a Day
Your network is one of the most important assets you have in your career. The question is how can you fit networking activities into your already overstretched day?I grappled with this for years and most of the time I failed. Chalk it up to being too good at putting...
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5 Common Mistakes That Can Kill Your Promotion
Every promotion is a milestone in your career. So you work hard and give it your best shot. But what if your hard work isn’t enough? What if you’re not doing the right things? Worse yet, could you be making these mistakes without knowing it and killing your chances of promotion?
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