Book Review: Getting Ahead by Joel Garfinkle The book Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level is very straightforward in its premise: hard-working, competent professionals will not move their career to the “next level” unless they do three important things that many people say they’re too busy to do. The…
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37 Women with Interesting Things to Say about Leadership
Whenever I read a “top” or “best” list for leadership, my reaction is typically, “Hmm. Not a whole lot of women on this list.” These lists often tout sophisticated methodologies that describe how they selected those on the list. I wonder: to what degree does the initial candidate pool include women? If qualified women are not…
Hallmarks of a Workplace Professional
There are two types of people in the workplace: amateurs and professionals. Amateurs play small; they are constantly in “protect” mode . Amateurs whine, belittle, gossip. Amateurs see things only from their perspective. Professionals play at a whole different level. The hallmark of true professionals is that they don’t rely solely on their technical expertise for greatness….
Why Letting Go Solves Problems
Have you ever been confronted by a dilemma or problem that had you stymied? You know, one so vexing that it felt as no matter what you tried, a resolution seemed impossible? The impenetrable wall remains. Surely you’ve heard the aphorism “Quitters never win and winners never quit”. Many would have you believe that to…
Career Success and Paying Attention
Have you ever noticed that when you pay attention to something specific, more of that thing starts to show up? That happens with cars – buy a new car in trend-setting Kodiak Brown and as you drive home, you see three more cars on the road in that same exact color. It works that way…