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Resources for Developing Relationships and Career Success Seminar
This is a central page with links to resources for participants in the IESE Business School Seminar: Developing Relationships and Career Management. Handouts: Career Management Survey Handout Further...
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How to Listen to a Speech
How should you listen to a speech? What is the most valuable attitude to develop as an audience member? Decide you are going to ask the first question at the end of the talk. Listen to the speaker...
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Choose to Suffer for 15 minutes
What is the best way to start a work day? I get up, I stretch, I shower, I eat breakfast… I get to my desk… and then… what is the best way to start? I think I have it. Choose to suffer for the first...
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Elvis and Self-Confidence
This is a guest post from Emily Matthews. Emily is currently applying to masters degree programs across the U.S., and loves to read about new research into health care, gender issues, and literature....
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The 3 Hardest Words in Management
What are the 3 words that managers find hardest to say? They are possibly the 3 words that parents find hardest to say to children. They are 3 words that teachers very rarely say to their students....
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Career Advice From LinkedIn’s Billionaire Founder Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman, Entrepreneur Reid Hoffman says it took him 15 years after graduating from Stanford to figure out what he wanted to do with his career. Hoffman eventually founded LinkedIn, a $19 billion...
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How do I become a … ?
Good speaker? Writer? Dancer? Singer? Runner? How do I become one? How does the whole thing come together? How will I know if it really is my thing? Will it be worth it? There is only one way to find...
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What will future jobs look like?
Economist Andrew McAfee suggests that, yes, probably, droids will take our jobs — or at least the kinds of jobs we know now. In this far-seeing talk, he thinks through what future jobs might look like,...
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TEDx University of Navarra: The Discipline of Finishing
I had an opportunity to give a talk at TEDx University of Navarra in April this year. The talk has just made its way up to YouTube. If you had 1000€ and you could invest that money in someone’s...
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Sun-Tzu’s 5 Factors for Victory and 5 Attributes of a Leader
I just watched Thomas Hyunh speak about his lifetime obsession with Sun-Tzu, the 2,500 year old Chinese General, at Authors@Google (video at the bottom of this post). Sun-Tzu was only 30 years old...
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Does success inevitably breed failure?
When does the switch from aiming to succeed to aiming not to fail occur? Has any company ever avoided it? NASA, Microsoft… and next up? Apple? Dan Ariely asks this question on his blog. Why did NASA...
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How to Choose in Life Decisions
Crossroads? A fork in the path of life… I was with a 65 year old successful entrepreneur at a direct marketing conference on Wednesday. I had given a speech and he came up and began to chat over...
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The Ability to Sell Yourself
How do you respond when a person says “Tell me about yourself?” “Tell me about yourself?”, Photo Credit: just.Luc It might be called confidence, it might be called belief – do you let others see the...
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Your Job is Not Your Job
If someone asked you, “What is your job?”, what would your response be? Go ahead, take a minute to think about your answer. I asked a similar question a few weeks ago in my post Become Indispensable:...
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Probably the Worst Email of All Time
This, or a version of it, arrives a few times a week: “Dear Conor I need to talk to you. Can I have some time? X” By the way, its not from my girlfriend, or my daughter. They get a yes. My mum, dad,...
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10 Personal Habits of Resilient People
Before you start reading, I’d like you to take a moment and think about the people you know well. Who, would you say, is the most psychologically resilient of your friends or family? Who would cope...
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The 5 Biggest Reasons why New Hires Fail
I came across a study reported in Mark Murphy’s book Hiring for Attitude. (Here is a summary of Hiring for Attitude [pdf]). The findings are based on 5,247 interviews. Mark and his team categorised...
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The Zig-Zag Path to your Dream Job
In 1920, at the age of 20, my grandfather took an exam, obtained high marks and got a full time job at The Bank of Ireland. He worked for the next 45 years in the same company, and then retired on a...
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6 Key Characteristics of “A” Players
Everyone wants to be Bruce Lee, but few want to put in the 10,000 (or more) hours of practice and preparation. It is only when the bar is held high that we can consistently put in the practice and...
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The End of the Knowledge Worker
I hear that we are in the economy of the knowledge worker. Nope, we skipped that. We were supposed to be shifting from the manufacturing worker to the knowledge worker. All the big gurus told us of...
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