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Whether you’re working for a large company, a small company, or your own company, your career is a living project that deserves your focused attention and best energies. Here are some suggestions to help you advance your career to the maximum: 1. Investigate and Understand Your Career Motivations, Strengths, and Goals Your motivation to succeed […]

Whether you’re currently a leader or aspiring to leadership, mentoring is a valuable technique you’ll want to add to your repertoire. If you are a leader, you’ll benefit from offering mentorship to capable young people you’d like to see enjoy greater success. If you are an aspiring leader, you’ll benefit from finding a mentor to

As the world gets more complicated, soft skills – the general people-oriented and behavioral ones that are important in every job, as opposed to the specific ones required to do well at a specific job – become more and more crucial to productivity and success. I’ve previously offered some advice and suggestions on these soft

It’s amazing how many people think they know themselves quite well, but have only scratched the surface of self-awareness. This is a terrible shame, because knowing yourself in-depth opens the door to a great deal of extra productivity and success. One reason is that knowing yourself allows you to take the fullest advantage of opportunities

There’s a lot of talk about the power of networking, and some of it is even true. But the usual kind of networking that happens at large events has a couple of big drawbacks: First, events that are suitable for you to network don’t happen all that often, and second, large events can be intimidating

There’s a good reason top athletes, actors, business people, musicians, and other groups of successful people spend a good deal of their time visualizing what they want to happen. Plenty of evidence and experience indicates visualizing both specific events and general trajectories for your life and work can be extremely helpful in making those futures

I recently posted a piece on some effective ways I’ve learned to get people on your side, win their respect and loyalty, and bring them onboard to help with your tasks, projects, and goals. Many of you complimented me on those ideas, and asked for more. As a result, I did some thinking and came

Most of my life, I’ve been lucky enough to have a lot of drive: drive to produce, drive to accomplish, drive to grow, drive to learn and discover, drive to get what I want. Most of my life, but not recently. I don’t know if anyone noticed, but for the past few months I’ve been

Very few of us have the luxury of working totally alone, which means most of us must report to, supervise, and/or coordinate our efforts with others. The more frequently this describes what you do, the more routinely good communication will be central to your productivity and effectiveness. Whether you are talking to individuals or groups,

Not everyone is cut out to be a leader, and people can certainly be highly productive and successful without many leadership qualities. But if you have them and you don’t use them, you should start, because otherwise you’re wasting a human resource that’s in terribly short supply. On the other hand, if you don’t have