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SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Scott Simon had a short piece this morning (September 1, 2012) on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday: Without A Career, How Do We Know Who We Are? Though it is primarily about how we find and define our identity through our work, this piece reminds us that the world of work is dramatically different than it [.].

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MARCH 5, 2013

Echeverria AMACOM (2012) A personal journey of discovery, generously shared with those who also aspire to liberate creativity and accelerate innovation Lina Echeverria shares with us her intensely personal journey of discovery, one that revealed personal life/professional career “lessons” that can be of incalculable [.].

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Review Books Creativity Innovation 80

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MARCH 8, 2012

The Start-Up of YOU: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha Crown Business (2012) How and why start-up mind-sets and skill-sets are essential to achieving and then sustaining success…however defined The basic premise in Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha’s book is that the same mind-sets and [.]. (..)

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Books Review Career Skills 80

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JUNE 25, 2012

The Zen Leader: 10 Ways to Go from Barely Managing to Leading Fearlessly Ginny Whitelaw The Career Press (2012) Rather than give up or give in, how to break free from self-inflicted limits and “flip to the next stage” Two months before Ernest Becker’s Denial of Death was published in 1974, he died of cancer [.].

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Review Books Career Management 75

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JANUARY 23, 2012

Your MBA Game Plan: Proven Strategies for Getting Into the Top Business Schools, Third Edition Omari Bouknight and Scott Shrum Career Press (2012) To paraphrase Henry Ford, “Whether you think you can earn an MBA from a top business school or you can’t, you’re probably right.” This review is of the Third Edition of a [.].

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Planning Review Books Career 75

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Your MBA Game Plan: Proven Strategies for Getting Into the Top Business Schools, Third Edition Omari Bouknight and Scott Shrum Career Press (2012) To paraphrase Henry Ford, “Whether you think you can earn an MBA from a top business school or you can’t, you’re probably right.” This review is of the Third Edition of [.].

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Planning Review Books Career 70

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JULY 21, 2012

Johnson dared to dream when she began her Wall Street career as a secretary. With courage and persistence, by her forties she had risen to become an Institutional Investor-ranked sell-side analyst.

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