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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. But as the saying goes, “ time heals all wounds…” .

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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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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

When you’re trying your case in the court of public opinion, attempting to preserve your chances for re-election, or hoping for a powerful sound byte for the evening news; the tactics employed by politicians may be useful. Just don’t use them in your personal or professional life. They are almost destined to fail.

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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

When you’re trying your case in the court of public opinion, attempting to preserve your chances for re-election, or hoping for a powerful sound byte for the evening news; the tactics employed by politicians may be useful. Just don’t use them in your personal or professional life. They are almost destined to fail.

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The State of Strategy Consulting, 2011

Harvard Business Review

Undertakings with $20 million price tags such as the post-merger integration of a giant pharmaceutical client and its equally humongous acquisition. The most intense competition between consulting firms is for "whale" engagements. Or redesigning a company's entire store system and approach to customers.