July, 2011

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When Doing It All Won't Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women

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Fellow executive coach Barbara McEwen and I have authored a self-coaching book for career women that we will publish it next few days. The concept for the book came about because of the very real, very important needs that our female clients repeatedly expressed. Year-after-year, we have heard women’s frustrations as they struggle with the countless roles and duties that are routinely placed upon them.

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Six Guidelines for Resolving Intergenerational Conflict

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By Larry and Meagan Johnson. For the first time in history, there are five generations working side by side: the Traditional Generation (born pre-1945), Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964), Generation X (born 1965-1980), Generation Y (1981-1995), and the Linkster Generation (born after 1995). Since conflicts often arise in a multigenerational environment, it's helpful to have some understanding of the differences between employees of distinct generations. . .

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Retain Talent Through a Concrete Corporate Culture

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By Barbara T. Armstrong. Who says corporate culture isn’t concrete? Not America’s best workplaces. . After three years of a frosty economy , the war for talent is heating back up. According to a recent survey by the National Association for Business Economics , the employment outlook by companies in the United States has soared to a 12-year high. .

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Putting Your Cash to Work in Real Estate

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Dallas attorney Joey Messina has a side business some might find surprising: He uses his own money to make mortgage loans to people who banks likely would avoid. Across the U.S., some mom-and-pop investors are yanking money from retirement accounts and safe but stingy savings to take on the risk of becoming "hard-money" mortgage lenders. In the past two years, Mr.

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When No One's Hiring, Get the Job You Want

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The job market is bad, really bad,” admits Ford R. Myers , President of Career Potential, LLC and author of GET THE JOB YOU WANT, EVEN WHEN NO ONE’S HIRING (Wiley; $19.95; June 2009). “But this has happened before, and it will happen again. Your chances as a jobseeker are actually much better than you think.” . Since 1992, Myers has been providing professional services in career consulting and executive coaching.

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Back to the Future: Sputnik to Today

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Sputnik 1 was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957, and was the first in a series of satellites collectively known as the Sputnik program. Here in the United States during this "Cold War" period, there was great concern that the Russians would dominate outer space and that strategic military position could become deadly to the American population.

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Is Your Business Saleable?

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There are many reasons for wanting to build a saleable business, including structuring a comfortable retirement. Yet, most small business owners discover that it's impossible to sell their business when they want to. Why? According the author Joh Warrillow, it's the fault of the owners themselves. They dominate their business so completely that, no matter how big or profitable, their company is essentially worthless without them.