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Generosity and Career Success

I’m finishing up a week in Spain, doing some consulting work for one of multinational corporate clients.  Cathy is at home recovering from her shoulder replacement surgery.  She tells me that many of our friends have been very generous in calling her and ... [Continue Reading]

Success Tweet 34: Failure Is the Tuition You Pay For Success

My latest career success coach book, Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Career Success Advice, All in 140 Characters or Less is now available on Amazon.com and in bookstores.  I am in the process of blogging about each of the tweets in it. You can get a ... [Continue Reading]

Jumping Hurdles, Leaping Fences, Penetrating Walls and Success

Clarity of purpose and direction is one of the keys to career and life success in my Common Sense Success System.  I discuss it in detail in several of my books: Straight Talk for Success, Your Success GPS and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  ... [Continue Reading]

A Wild and Crazy Success Story

This is Wednesday, so this post is on outstanding performance. Over the holidays, I watched the Kennedy Center Honors show.  Steve Martin was one of the performing artists honored in 2007.  I was pleased to see that the Wild and Crazy Guy got the ... [Continue Reading]

Brand Yourself or Others Will

Today is Tuesday, so this post is on positive personal impact. Developing your unique personal brand is a great way to create positive personal impact.  Personal branding is not just for entrepreneurs and solo professionals. It’s for everyone. I, for one, ... [Continue Reading]

November 4 is USE YOUR COMMON SENSE DAY

Today is Friday.  Normally, I would be doing a post on interpersonal competence today.  However, I have a special announcement, so I won’t be posting on interpersonal competence until Friday, October 19. I have created Use Your Common Sense ... [Continue Reading]