“Career management” sounds like something you should be doing, right? But how to get started? You should read a book on marketing and selling services.
The very idea brings up images of car salesmen, snake oil, and telemarketing. The small person in our heads says, “I’m not in sales!””
Oh, but you are. It turns out […]

Sometimes many, many failures.
All this excellence-seeking will lead you square into the path of something that most of us will go to great lengths to avoid: failure. We’ll blame others, blame our circumstances, and blame the weather to avoid responsibility for failure. Most usually and tragically we avoid failure by avoiding those things at which […]

Leadership starts with adherence to the principal principle: be great at what you do.
It doesn’t matter what you do. It doesn’t matter where you do it. Some are called to be great in a way that changes the world, others are recognized with Nobel prizes. Most of us are not given such high callings or […]

(If you are just tuning in, you might want to take a glance at Part 1 to catch up.)
Heady stuff. Do you, um, have anything a little more about, you know, me?
Why yes, I do.
Understanding how to be an effective leader is good for your career. The stuff we’ll talk about in the coming months […]