10 Laws of Success
Success depends on many factors that are not necessarily under your control. If you are prepared, you will be ready for opportunities that come up.
Welcome to The BlackJag Executive
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For Greater Success, Break Through
Power and Influence. That’s what you’re all about. You’ve spent your life carefully building every step of your career and by all accounts you have succeeded. At the top of your game, you hold a senior position and are well respected in your industry for your hard work year after year. But now, something has [...]
When confidence trumps competence in the workplace
Ask any individual what they admire about a leader and invariably their description will include “confidence”. People love to be around those that exude confidence. Confidence is the trait that appears to trump all else when leaders are evaluated (and conversely, as I learned far too often during my dating years, “nice guys finish last”). [...]
Risks of data-driven decision making
As the world goes more digital and talk of “big data” enters mainstream dialogue nearly all firms are obsessed with data driven thinking – measure, analyze, modify, repeat – a seemingly endless pattern. I love data-driven decisions because the approach offers a democratic way to solve problems, versus purely deferring to those in positions of [...]
Why Sales or Product are the smartest career choices – but only for now
Recently our CEO Brian Halligan said during an employee gathering that there are only two jobs worth having at a company – either building the product or selling it. The blunt statement has seemingly obvious wisdom, particularly in our tumultuous economy where jobs come and go at an alarming speed, but it left some people [...]
Reform Stanford Business School or keep paying lip service to motto
The following is a letter I wrote to my dean, Garth Saloner, a few months ago regarding overdue reforms for Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. I am choosing to publish it here as I hope it encourages others to join the cause. The letter is long but such an audacious agenda requires a well structured [...]
How to Train Yourself for a New Job
ID3 Article source: http://www.jobdig.com/podcast/fileStat/JobDig%20-%20How%20to%20Train%20Yourself%20for%20a%20New%20Job.mp3 Max
For the latter half of the twentieth century the path to a solid middle class lifestyle was to get a college degree, join a Fortune 500 firm and work there for the next forty years or so, banking away a pension for a healthy retirement. That path ceased to be “safe” about a decade ago [...]
Why Do You Need a Resume
ID3 Article source: http://www.jobdig.com/podcast/fileStat/JobDig%20-%20Why%20Do%20You%20Need%20a%20Resume.mp3 Max
Top Resume Writing Tips
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Interview Etiquette
ID3 Article source: http://www.jobdig.com/podcast/fileStat/JobDig%20-%20Interview%20Etiquette.mp3 Max
