Entries Tagged 'Career' ↓
February 4th, 2009 — Career, Consulting
| Really, is it? This question bothered me a lot not until long ago. I am 37 and many of my friends climbed management ladder. VP this and VP that. I am still just a consultant, the guy in the field… common wisdom tells me I am a loser. Am I? |
by crabchick |
To answer this question I started to read more books. I think I found the answer in Harvey Mackay’s Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition , he writes:
We heard from the top officers of Honda, Sony, Mitsubishi, and the head of the biggest enterprise of all, the eighty-eight-year-old president of Matsushita Electric:
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January 20th, 2009 — Career
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Recession is not an obstacle to reach your career potential. In fact, it is a catalyst to show off your skills, time to get even better results. Say what? recessions is a catalyst for my career growth? Huh?… In Career Counsel: Follow Your Own Path published on Harvard Business Review, Robert S. Kaplan offers three basic “rules of the road”. Kaplan writes:
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by laurenatclemson |
1. Managing your career is 100% your responsibility, and you need to act accordingly.
2. Be wary of conventional wisdom.
3. Have faith that, although justice may not prevail at any given point in time, it should generally prevail over time.
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January 19th, 2009 — Career, Entrepreneurship
| How do you know your are growing your business? How do you know you are on track? Would you run complex statistics and try to correlate the findings? Would you run a survey and then again get buried in stats? In The One Number You Need to Grow Frederick F. Reichheld takes a stand: |
by Tuftronic10000 |
If growth is what you’re after, you won’t learn much from complex measurements of customer satisfaction or retention. You simply need to know what your customers tell their friends about you.
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