On your way up the corporate ladder, you are bound to come across “zero sum” situations in which there will be a winner and a loser. When you reach one of these moments, compassion, honor, and self-indulgence will suddenly become luxuries you cannot afford. In a battle for that single open slot, the compassionate candidate can be hurt, the honorable shamed, and the self-indulgent ridiculed.
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managing emotions
Rejection won’t kill you; how you handle it might.
Abstract: Branding yourself as someone who is a passionate go-getter by communicating with emotional impact during a job interview.
Communicate as if you were the recipient of the communication.
Forget your role as transmitter. No one cares that you “have the floor;” people only care if you grab them. (Not literally.) If you can do this, you’re golden.
But how? Emotional impact, folks. I don’t care how popular the wisdom is to “just give the facts,” there are very few times when it is appropriate to deliver only facts, and fewer times still when it is possible. You are ALWAYS selling.
Abstract: How the citizenry is to blame for allowing power hungry ignorami to gain power over us
Abstract: Creating a sustainably positive, can-do environment that delivers results.
Three times in the past three weeks, I spent time with people who are very good at their jobs as individuals, but who didn’t operate well as a team. In each case, the issue was that no one asked any questions. Instead, team members would say things like: “Let me try to explain this to [...]
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