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Post Layoff – To Take A Lower Salary or Not

Women on Business

My plan was to make a career transition and I had accepted the fact that I’d probably have to take a short term pay cut from my pharmaceutical sales job to transition into marketing with a higher long term salary potential. So what do you do to protect your earning power but also keep yourself competitive in a buyer’s market?

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3 Ways to Confront Economic Adversity in 2011

Coaching Tip

Understanding and using time to overcome life’s challenges is a topic I cover extensively in my book, THE POWER OF ADVERSITY: Tough Times Can Make You Stronger, Wiser, and Better. The Power of Adversity: Tough Times Can Make You Stronger, Wiser, and Better.

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Getting at the Heart of Leadership

You're Not the Boss of Me

I wrote this post in September, 2011. There are after all, some very wealthy and powerful people who have amassed their fortunes in just that way. Ms Ingraham worked as an Administrative Assistant for a pharmaceutical company in New Jersey. There are lessons here worth repeating. . Without them, humanity cannot survive.”

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No Pain, No Gain. Life Lesson on Endurance

QAspire

He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. “ You get almost nothing without going through some kind of pain, unless you win a lottery.”, replied the man who was himself a fitness freak. He neither had space nor money to start out.

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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. As I look at the health care reform debate, I see a number of these behaviors in the way the discussion(s) is (are) proceeding. And, frankly, it makes me sick. Never show again.

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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. As I look at the health care reform debate, I see a number of these behaviors in the way the discussion(s) is (are) proceeding. And, frankly, it makes me sick. Never show again.

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The State of Strategy Consulting, 2011

Harvard Business Review

The days when you could make a living responding to companies' discovery of strategy, as in "Gosh, we gotta get ourselves one of those," are gone with the 1970s (or maybe the 1990s in the "developing world"). Strategy has triumphed, the installed base is huge, no self-respecting company would be without one.