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The Magical Career Fairy Will Help You

Persuasive Powerhouse

Because you are doing such great work, she’ll soon tap you with her enchanted wand and sprinkle you with sparkly fairy dust and you’ll get that key project, significant promotion, raise, bonus or new career that you’ve been waiting for. She doesn’t exist, and career rewards for your great work don’t just appear.

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Just because you can make an omelet, doesn’t mean you’re a restaurateur!

Mills Scofield

Long before it became fashionable, Saul was leveraging the power of business models in his career. We know the importance of a living, adaptable, actionable strategic plan. If you want your organization to survive and thrive well into the 21 st Century, read this book. It provides everyone with a common mission and purpose.

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From the Rubble of Dreams: Resilience to Be Reborn

Lead Change Blog

Build on your strength and core competencies. A talented wordsmith, Jerri crafted a strategic plan called “The Success Suit” and the word quickly took off. What would you do if your life’s work vanished? Is it possible to grow through such challenges? I needed to know her secret sauce. Here are her lessons.

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Leverage Your Business Exponentially

Strategy Driven

They are missing the vision of finding a job that will provide both career growth and satisfaction. As a job seeker, my advice is to not focus on one core area of expertise but think of complementary avenues you may pursue to increase your chances of finding interesting work. Her new book, Hired! :

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

These are my considered opinions, having conducted Performance Reviews, Strategic Planning and Visioning for other companies over 35+ years. Core Business. Enron (like many other companies) got into areas beyond their core competencies. Without Strategic Planning, there is no benchmarking of specific tactics.