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Friday,June 11th, 2010

“You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out!”

One of my all time favorite holiday movies is “A Christmas Story.” Set in the early 1940’s, the story circles around 9-year old Ralphie and his overwhelming desire for a Red Ryder air rifle.

His anxious mother worries that he’ll get hurt and his hopes are seemingly dashed once Christmas morning comes.  [...]

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Wednesday,July 22nd, 2009

Broaden Your Goal Setting Strategy

Submitted By Keith Ferrazzi – Ferrazzi Greenlight

Peers in lifeline relationships help each other set goals and refine the plans to achieve them. To get really smart around this area of your Who’s Got Your Back success strategy, I recommend working together to set two types of goals: performance goals and learning goals.

Performance goals are what [...]

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Tuesday,June 30th, 2009

Career Life-cycle and Generational Professional Development

As the current economy rambles on, many individuals – and perhaps you – have revisited their current professional status. Even for those who may not feel their jobs are at risk, there is a more visible drive to grow, refresh or rebuild skills, knowledge, networks and more.

There are many models developed to represent career [...]

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Friday,May 29th, 2009

Twitter 5 Tips for Success

Wow, I can’t believe nearly two weeks has passed since the invitations for e4 were sent out.  By now I hope you have registered and visited our Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter social networking sites!  Many of you are not familar at all with Twitter.  You may have signed up for a Twitter account [...]

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Friday,May 22nd, 2009

In the Current

I heard the greatest business analogy ever years ago during my tenure as a convention services manager. I was eavesdropping on my group’s keynoter when he asked the crowd the following question, “How many of you have ever been white water rafting?”

There were sporadic hands raised throughout the audience and the speaker proceeded [...]