The most common reaction I get from leaders when I ask this question is a blank stare. Perhaps the reason for this reaction is that they realize that the answer they give will summarize, in a sentence, who they are, what type of leader they are, and how in tune they are to the 21st century.… read more
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This is a time when many people traditionally reflect on the past year and try to identify ways in which to make the coming year a better one. They want to look forward to a new year with hope and resolve to become a better person in some way—to lose weight, to stop smoking, to become a more… read more
Recently, I was invited by the Czech and Slovak chapter of The Young Presidents Organization and Forum 2000 to hear a speech by the well-known and highly regarded international pollster, John Zogby. Zogby’s company, Zogby International is based in New York and conducts polls and surveys in 70… read more
Time is a great evaluator of people and their impact on things. Too often, especially in this age of instant, always-on information, after the test of time, we find that someone who was revered for something turns out to be much less impressive than we originally thought they were.
The… read more
I am told that the all-time best selling book on finding a job (more than 8 million copies sold) was written 37 years ago by an Episcopalian clergyman who lost his job as a pastor in San Francisco in what we today call a downsizing. Richard Nelson Bolles’s experience in losing his job,… read more
What would a column on career development be without a discussion about your future? For millennia people have been fascinated with methods of predicting the future—tea leaves, tarot cards, astrology, psychics, palmistry—the list goes on and on. In fact, when I Googled “ways of predicting the… read more
Many centuries ago it would have been easy to identify someone of courage. You would just have to look for people with lots of scars from sword fights, perhaps a few missing teeth from battle and probably a very stern look about them. The first person who comes to mind for me is Jan Zizka, the… read more
As a candidate, negotiating an offer may reveal more about you than anything you do in the recruiting process. Negotiating sends volumes of information to others about who you really are. Think about it for a second. This is where you display—for real, not just “interview talk”—what is… read more
We’re all familiar with the written resume; it’s where we record our educational and professional history. It's what we hope makes us stand out from the crowd somehow.
But, after more than 25 years of reading resumes I began to notice something. After a generation of bright,… read more
Have you ever wished you had a “silver bullet” interview question that could cut through all the rehearsed responses that candidates have today and give you a reliable predictor of success? Well, thanks to more than forty years of research conducted by Professor Walter Mischel, you just might… read more