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Entrepreneurship: Transforming Nothing into Something

Coaching Tip

By Scott Adams, the creator of " Dilbert ," abstracted from How to Get a Real Education in The Wall Street Journal, April 9, 2011. I failed at my first career in banking. I failed at my second career with the phone company. Students should be taught that failure is a process, not an obstacle. Combine Skills.

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What Am I Supposed To Be Learning From This?

Next Level Blog

A long time ago in a land far away, I worked for a year as a first year associate in a now defunct Wall Street investment bank. Things like the recruiting process is not necessarily the best indicator of what it will be like to actually work someplace.   It was a stressful, but educational experience. What did I learn?

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Shut-up & Listen | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The next step in the process is learning where to apply your new found listening skills. Hundreds of thousands of jobs are being shed by GE, Chevron, Sam’s Club, Wells Fargo Bank, HP, Starbucks etc. Organizations can no longer guarantee work and careers, even if they want to. and the state, counties and cities.

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Loyalty vs. Tenure | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The mandates for compliance along with the accompanying maze of bureaucratic processes and procedures, will often take precedence over doing the right thing. Tenured organizations also tend to embrace comfort zones and are often built upon the “DITWLY&# (Did It That Way Last Year) principle.

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No Pain, No Gain. Life Lesson on Endurance

QAspire

He went through a painful process of starting up, getting space on lease and getting some funding from the bank to get some basic equipments. He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. He neither had space nor money to start out.

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

What I like to refer as “positional gaps&# are best closed by listening to all sides, finding common ground and then letting the principle of doing the right thing guide the process. It is essential for organizational health and performance that conflict be accepted and addressed through effective conflict resolution processes.

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Driving School for Leaders

Next Level Blog

As I was driving us home from the government center, I asked Brad to pay attention to where my hands were on the wheel as I banked through turns. I've been asking audiences for the last few years how many people have had a deep end of the pool experience in their career that turbo charged their development.