- Making Winning Decisions: Why It's Hard to Be Rational
- Jan 18, 2008
- Stephen P. Robbins explains how you can learn to know your biases and how to minimize their impact in this introduction to his book.
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- Knowing Your Flexstyle: The Good and Bad Ways We Manage Relationships Between Work and Personal Life
- Dec 21, 2007
- Whether you know it or not, you already have a strategy for handling your life. But is it a conscious strategy? Do you feel in control of your life? Begin to take control to be the CEO of your life by learning to manage your flexstyle.
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- Portfolio of Passions--It's Not About Balance
- Sep 7, 2007
- Learn why every passion counts.
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- From Great to Lasting—Redefining Success
- Aug 31, 2007
- Learn to build a life and work that brings personal fulfillment and lasting relationships and makes a difference in the world in which you live.
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- Rule of Life #3: Accept What Is Done Is Done
- Aug 25, 2006
- Bestselling business author Richard Templar explains the importance of "getting over it" and moving on with your life. No room for grudges in a successful person's life!
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- Throw Away the Resume!
- Jul 28, 2006
- Although most IT professionals rely on their resume as their primary marketing document, published articles and case studies can have a dramatic impact on career development. Matthew Moran discusses techniques to help you get started in writing case studies and articles and also provides some ideas for getting them published.
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- Professional Networking Made Easy: Priming the Pump
- Jul 21, 2006
- Matthew Moran provides techniques and strategies to help you create a strong professional network, starting today.
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- Rule of Life #5: Know What Counts and What Doesn't
- Jun 30, 2006
- Understanding what is really important is key to leading a better, happier, more successful life, as best-selling business author Richard Templar explains in this brief excerpt from his book, The Rules of Life.
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- Rule of Life #4: Accept Yourself
- Jun 23, 2006
- You don't have to improve or change or strive for perfection. Quite the opposite. Just accept. That means accepting all the warts and emotional lumps and bumps, the bad bits, the weaknesses and the rest of it. This doesn't mean we are happy with everything about ourselves, or that we are going to be lazy and lead a bad life. We are going to accept the way we are, initially, and then build on that. What we are not going to do is beat ourselves up because we don't like some bits.
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- Rule of Life #2: You'll Get Older But Not Necessarily Wiser
- Jun 9, 2006
- There is an assumption that as we get older we will get wiser; unfortunately, this just isn't true. The trick is to be kind to yourself when you do mess things up. Be forgiving and accept that it's all part of that growing older but no wiser routine.
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- 25 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living: The First Five Days
- Apr 28, 2006
- This chapter will help you get started improving your life by teaching you to empathize with others. Learning how to think of others and understand their experiences can help you increase the quality of your own life.
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- Your Personal Code for Living a Better, Happier, More Successful Life
- Apr 21, 2006
- The most important part of being happy is being happy with yourself. This chapter provides eight simple rules that you can follow to enrich yourself and your personal satisfaction. These rules focus on things you can do to improve yourself.
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- Why Do You Work So Hard?
- Mar 10, 2006
- There is a very good chance you are not living your dreams. In brutal fact, you might not even have tangible dreams to reach. You might be what I call a scratcher: someone who fervidly scrapes the system like a chicken, yearning to find that one additional piece of cornmeal to help make the next car payment or nearly delinquent credit card bill. Oh yes, you have dreams; however, your focus on short-term gain and maintaining an ever-escalating standard of living preclude any hope of long-term satisfaction. More specifically, you lack the focus and discipline that will enable you to realize your dreams—dreams that are attainable, but only if you treat them as goals and develop realistic plans to reach them.
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- The Power of Impossible Thinking: Our Models Define Our World
- Feb 17, 2006
- In order to see the world clearly, we need to understand our mental models, the constructs that we create to make sense of the world around us. This chapter will help you discover how you're limiting what you see by relying on models to fill in what you don't see.
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- Truth 1 About Managing Your Career: Hitting the Ground Running Can Get You into Trouble
- Feb 10, 2006
- It's common when starting a new job to be told that you need to "hit the ground running." Experienced people who appear in the job market after their companies have downsized often hear this. The expectation is that since they bring connections, experience, and other intangible assets to a new job, they don't need time to learn the new culture and the players. The temptation on hearing this is to dive in with all your energy, ready to make an amazing first impression. After all, you do need to prove yourself. Although your boss may be satisfied, that attitude can get you into trouble in more ways than one.
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- Keys to Launching an Extraordinary Career: What Contribution Will You Make?
- Dec 16, 2005
- The best way to manage your career, from Day One, is to focus on the contribution you will make to your employer. In other words, it’s not about you. It’s about what you can do to further the goals of your company or organization. This chapter will help you get serious and understand what it means to contribute to the goals of your company.
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- The Truth About Starting a New Job
- Dec 9, 2005
- This chapter busts some myths and provides some helpful tips to keep in mind when starting a new job.
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- The Truth About Getting Your Point Across: You and Your Recipient
- Dec 1, 2005
- From its earliest roots, communication has focused on sender and recipient having some common understanding of the information flowing between them. This chapter focuses on establishing the kind of common ground that allows effective communication.
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- Handling Tough Questions: The Critical Dynamics of Q&A
- Sep 9, 2005
- This chapter demonstrates exactly how not to respond when faced with difficult questions. A Defensive, evasive, or contentious response can actually damage your cause even more than an upopular but honest one. This chapter outlines each of these improper responses, and provides an illustration of each which demonstrates how they can be harmful.
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- Handling Tough Questions: Agility Versus Force
- Sep 2, 2005
- At some point in your life, you're going to be faced with the task of answering a question that makes you squirm. This chapter introduces by anecdote the skills necessary to answer tough questions with poise, skill, and charisma.
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