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Your Greatest Career Risk
Career minded individuals always seem to be trying to chart out their next success. That may include striving toward the next promotion. It could mean making more money. It could mean simply making more people happy. Whatever your definition of success, most of us set...
Consulting Success from a Good Economy
Things looked bleak in the depths of the great recession. Many major firms collapsed and went out of business completely. Some were deemed "too big to fail" and were bailed out by the U.S. government. For the surviving firms, layoffs were rampant, resulting in...
Consultants are Vampires, Clients are Zombies
I'm intrigued with the popularity of vampires and zombies these days. Just doing a simple search for vampires on Amazon.com provides over 51,000 book titles. A search on zombies provides another 24,000. Netflix offers many titles under each category as well. It might...
Getting In to Consulting
I could tell by the look on his face that the interview was over. I was sitting in an interview with a top tier consulting firm in my college’s career services center. The interviewer had explained what it was like to work there. He said there would be a lot of...
The 5 Biggest Myths of Consulting
When I tell someone I'm a consultant I never know what the response is going to be. Some people are impressed. With some people, their son or daughter is a consultant and they sense a connection. Still with others, I see them trying to suppress a sneer. Some of these...
10 Ways to Be the Chief Executive Officer of your Career
The chief executive officer is the head honcho. The person in charge. He or she is the one that presumably calls the shots. The CEO is everything you should be for your own career. Here I discuss 10 parallels between what a CEO does and what you should be doing to be...
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