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You Need to Stand for Something
Today, I read a story in the Washington Post about a girl who recently resigned from West Point and is going to Yale. She resigned from West Point because she is gay and the school will kick her out if it learns that she is gay. Tired of compromising...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 1 CommentHow to Find Teaching Jobs, Education Jobs and School Jobs
Regardless of what you do, the odds are that you might get a job teaching. If you have significant professional experience in a field (or even not that significant professional experience), you are likely qualified to teach. Education is a gigantic industry...
Filed under Featured Leave a CommentNever Worry about What Others Think
Being concerned with what others think is one of the biggest mistakes people make. Rather than focusing on who they want to be and what they want to do, many people live their lives more concerned about how they look to others. Deep down inside you is...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 16 CommentsHow to Choose Recruiters, Executive Search, and Recruitment Agencies (and How They Work)
When you go to most job sites, the majority of advertisements you will typically see will be from recruiters. However, despite so many recruiter advertisements clogging job sites, recruiters are one of the most popular (and most misunderstood) ways of...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 3 CommentsIn our job searches and careers, there are a variety of forces that can hold us back. However, in almost every single case, the thing that can hold us back more than anything is ourselves and our own minds. In fact, your brain and what it’s doing–how...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 3 CommentsHow to Get Hired Where There Is Not Even an Opening
For some reason, almost every week (sometimes more than once a week) venture capitalists and private equity companies call me to talk about the various businesses I am involved in. I used to talk to them quite formally, the way average people like me...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 1 CommentAre You a Value Creator or Value Extractor?
When I was in my third year of college, I applied to a special accelerated program at the University of Chicago Business School, which would have allowed me to graduate from business school and complete my undergraduate degree in a total of five years–instead...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Goal Setting 4 CommentsYou Are Just Fine the Way You Are
I was sitting in a sales seminar several months ago and a well known sales trainer got up and started speaking to the audience. He is considered by many to be one of the best salespeople in America, and I was hanging on his every word. The man was describing...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 7 CommentsSeveral years ago a friend called me and encouraged me to interview at his law firm. He told me people at the firm were involved in various movie deals and hobnobbing with movie stars. He told me all of the lawyers were driving around in Porsche convertibles...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 33 CommentsWorking on Sundays and Concentrating on Your Work
There is a secret to success, common among most successful people out there that I have seen time and time again: working on Sundays. When I was practicing law, the best attorneys were always in on Sundays. When I was a student in college and law school,...
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