How to Leverage a Rapid Growth Field for Your Career Success
"Change is inevitable, growth is intentional." -- Glenda Cloud
The field you’re in can slow you down or it can speed up your career success.
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Great Lessons Learned from Seth Godin
Whether you find the free prize or not, this post will make you think.
Find Your Strengths Among Your Team
"Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.” - August Wilson
As a parting gift at the end of one of my projects, I wanted everybody to walk away with their list of personal strengths. Not just a list that I made up, or their own list, but a list of strengths through the eyes of the team.
Microsoft Competencies for Skilled Effectiveness
When i first joined Microsoft, I felt like I had joined an elite team of smart people that gets results. Microsoft is a big place, and I had joined the Developer Support Team. It was an interesting team and I was surrounded by people who worked smarter, harder, faster, and more effective than anything I had ever seen before. There were people that built robots and people that built rockets. There were former accountants and former professors. The intellectual horsepower was stunning and so was the passion.
I was curious how I too could become a skilled Softie.
Dan Schawbel on 5 Great Lessons in Personal Branding
Editor’s note: Meet Dan Schawbel. Dan’s super skill is personal branding and he has an impressive set of credentials.
Dan is the bestselling author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, an award winning blogger at Personal Branding Blog, the publisher of Personal Branding Magazine, a national speaker and consultant on branding, and a BusinessWeek columnist. He’s been called a “Personal Branding Guru” by The New York Times and has been featured in over 150 media outlets.