Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2019

During my career as a successful commodities broker, I learned a key lesson about success: self-management is more important than talent. His career had its ups and downs, including a bankruptcy. Today he is a sought-after speaker who offers his experience and perspective on managing a career and, most of all, a life.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. “You have to think carefully about what to say and how to say it so the hiring manager thinks, ‘This person can do what I need done,’” she says. ” Here’s how to write a resume that will be sure to win attention.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Why merely manage the channel when you can start filling it? Everyone would like to be a player and Hollywood is littered with the wreckage of careers of people who looked at the entertainment industry and thought, "I would love to be a big shot and, anyhow, how hard can it be?" Plus, eventually every grocer wants to be a P&G.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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