All Posts Tagged With: "Career Success"

The First Who Concept by Jim Collins

Continuing with our Jim Collins series, we want to share with you what is perhaps the most important concept in business.  If you master this and truly apply it in your corporate or entrepreneurial venture, you will most likely succeed. You probably have hear of Jim Collins, but if you have not, let me direct [...]

Jim Collins on Motivation

In the last post we shared with you an interview with Jim Collins, author of the book Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All , conducted by Charlie Rose. We showed you some great insights from Jim on leadership, greatness, falling from the top, and motivation. In this post we [...]

Great Lessons on Success: Jim Collins Interviewed by Charlie Rose

Jim Collins, author of the book Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, was recently interviewed by Charlie Rose.  If you are truly interested in success, you cannot miss this great interview. In this interview Jim talks about leadership, greatness, falling from the top, and much more.  You can learn [...]

Bill Gates 11 Rules of Success for High School Graduates

A lot of young people want to know how to become successful.  They want to be rich and powerful, run their own companies, become CEOs.   Graduating from high school and perhaps starting college is a time of reflection and important decisions about what line of work or what studies one should pursue. So how can [...]

Seven Deadly Career Mistakes

I have been spending some time reading through Debra Benton’s blog, and ran across another great article (among many) that I would like to share with you.  For those that don’t know, Debra is a great author whose book How to Think Like a CEO has been a great hit with our readers here at [...]

Success is for Learners

Debra Benton, the author of many great business books, including one of my favorites How to Think Like a CEO , has written a great blog article called Success Lies in Your Ability to be a Continuous Learner.  In that article she makes a statement that I believe to be absolutely true:  “Formal education is [...]

The Most Important Trait for Success

There was a recent article from Laura Rowley called Character Traits and Behaviors That Make You Rich that was posted this week on Yahoo Finance.  According to the article, research has found that there are certain traits and behaviors that lead to financial success.  This may not be a huge surprise to most people, but it [...]

How to Get a Job in a Tough Economy

We are living through one of the worst unemployment environments in several decades.  New college graduates are struggling to find that first job opportunity.  People that have lost their jobs are losing hope as the months go by and they don’t see any sign that things are getting better.  Older people are having to prematurely [...]

Never Retire? Great if by Choice

There was an interesting article this week from CNBC called “Working During Retirement May Be ‘The New Normal’.   It describes a study conducted by Barclays which concluded that wealthy individuals around the world are increasingly rejecting the notion that you have to stop working by a certain age and that many are finding this to [...]