I first heard the term emotional intelligence linked to work in a coaching class. The teacher assigned us Daniel Goleman’s book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. Quite honestly, I thought it sounded like so many other “I have the answer for you” type books – none of which ever seem to [...]
Read More...Could a Bad Job Interview or Lost Job Be Lucky?
July 15, 2009 By 3 Comments
I just read an article about a man who was lucky enough to win the lottery – and then had horrible things happen to him. There seem to be lots of stories like this. (Personally I think they feed into the bigger archetypal and socially useful picture of unhappy rich people; but that’s a whole [...]
Read More...Will These 10 Resume Killer Phrases Really Destroy Your Resume?
July 9, 2009 By 17 Comments
There’s a Liz Ryan “resume killer” article setting the blogosphere ablaze (well at least warmly abuzz) that offers a list of overworked resume phrases that kill your resume (or so she says) and therefore you should never, ever, positively no way use them. Here are those dastardly resume-killer word combos that, that according to Liz, [...]
Read More...How NOT Thinking Positive Can Lead to Career Success
July 6, 2009 By 2 Comments
WHAT? How can not thinking positive be a boon to your career??? You must think I’ve gone off the deep end. Well I haven’t. Trust me…we’ll be ok by the time we get to the end of this. Let’s start with the story of an executive who was so caught up in his vision of [...]
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