Monthly Archives: May 2009

Find cause, will break cycle

Have you noticed how there are certain emotions that you continue to expereince during your day-to-day at work?  Like for example, every time you hear the phone ring first thing in the morning as you`re settling in to your work station, you feel dread.  Each time an email bounces, you feel frustrated.  And each time a [...]

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A New Kind of Hero for a New Kind of World, Hero # 9

(This post is part of a pact I made. Click here for the full story.) 
To fully experience Denise, open another window to play the breath song while you read this post.
Powered by dedication and discipline, Denise is well-acquainted with competing and winning. Yet, as she has recently discovered, achieving and receiving recognition is not what fulfils her.
In her words: “With [...]

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Cut the (umbilical) cord

 (Or the birth of  brand YOU)
A few months ago Dan Schawbel (personal branding guru and author of Me 2.0) asked me if I wanted to contribute to his e-mag: Personal Branding.  He offered me the option to either edit or write a column.  I chose to write – and accepted to write The Brand Assessment column.  [...]

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Impermanent is a good thing

“Don’t get too attached…” said a sales manager to me once in reference to a sales rep she thought would not be around for much longer.
Her words continue to echo in my mind since that day eight years ago.  As a strategic job-hopper I tend to not stick around for long at jobs (my all [...]

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So you wanna start a blog??

In the past month a few of my readers have asked me to help them start a blog.  By no means am I writing this post to avoid having coffee with you or speaking on the phone with you about this. I’d love to do those things.
I’m writing this mainly to organize my thoughts on [...]

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