Aug 31

How to sell yourself in 30 seconds and leave people wanting more

By:  Shana Lebowitz
(https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-give-a-30-second-elevator-pitch-2015-12)

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The elevator pitch can be harder than it seems.

  • Selling yourself quickly and efficiently is key when you meet someone new. But crafting and delivering a solid elevator pitch can be harder than it seems.
  • We asked marketing strategist Dorie Clark for her best advice on selling yourself.
  • Clark’s tips include: Personalize as much as possible and don’t stick to a script.

“The best elevator pitch doesn’t feel like an elevator pitch,” says Dorie Clark. “It feels like a conversation.”

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Aug 31

This Is the No. 1 Reason Why People Fail at Switching Jobs (and What to Do About It)

There’s a reason changing careers is so hard, but it’s not impossible.

By J.T. O’DonnellFounder and CEO, WorkItDaily.com@jtodonnell

(https://www.inc.com/jt-odonnell/this-is-no-1-reason-why-people-fail-at-switching-jobs-and-what-to-do-about-it.html)

In my last 15+ years as a career coach, I’ve worked with many professionals who feel “rusted out” in their current career. They want to make a shift. They talk dreamily about how much greater their personal and professional lives will be if they can just go where the grass is greener a/k/a a different industry or profession.

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Aug 06

Bill and Melinda Gates Just Wrote an Extraordinary Annual Letter That Teaches Us 7 Powerful Leadership Lessons

In their phenomenal Annual Letter released yesterday, Bill and Melinda Gates take us to leadership school.


By Marcel Schwantes
Principal and founder, Leadership From the Core @MarcelSchwantes
(https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/bill-melinda-gates-just-wrote-an-extraordinary-annual-letter-that-teach-us-7-powerful-leadership-lessons.html)

Bill and Melinda Gates pose in front of the Elysee Palace before receiving the award of Commander of the Legion of Honor by French President Francois Hollande on April 21, 2017 in Paris, France.

A decade ago, Bill and Melinda Gates began writing about their enormous philanthropic efforts impacting the world, which they highlight in their annual letter.

They just released their 10th letter yesterday, marking the ten-year anniversary where they answer “10 tough questions” people most often ask them about their work.

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Aug 06

15 Favorite Interview Questions to Completely Disarm Job Candidates (in a Really Good Way)

We asked readers for their favorite interview questions — and we weren’t disappointed.

By Jeff HadenContributing editor, Inc.@jeff_haden
(https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/15-favorite-interview-questions-to-completely-disarm-job-candidates-in-a-really-good-way.html)

Maybe your favorite interview question is one of the most common interview questions. Maybe it’s one of the most common behavioral interview questions. Or maybe you have a less conventional interview question you like to ask, like those asked by these company founders and CEOs.

What is your favorite interview question? To find out, we asked the Inc. community on LinkedIn to provide their favorites, as well as their reasons why. Below are some of the responses; go here and here to see them all.

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Aug 06

The Secrets to Being Great at Work? Simplify and Reflect

By Charles Franklin
(https://smallbiztrends.com/2018/02/great-at-work-book-review.html)

Tired of working harder at work and not getting ahead? With a simple shift in your current work habits “Great at Work” can turn your average day at work into a high-powered journey into workplace greatness.

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Jun 24

Here’s What Introverts Find So Annoying About What Extroverts Think

If you’re someone who clearly identifies with being on either side of the personality fence, you know how challenging it can be living and working with people who can be so different from you.

By Christina DesMarais
Contributor, Inc.com
CREDIT: Getty Images

Anywhere from a third to half of the population fits the definition of being introverted, meaning these people are at their best in quieter environments compared with the extroverts who do well with a lot of stimulation. And if you’re someone who clearly identifies with being on either side of the fence, you know how challenging it can be living and working with people who can be so different from yourself. Coming from the introverted camp, here are several things I wish extroverts understood.

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Jun 24

HR has lost the trust of employees. Here is who has it now

Danny Crichton@dannycrichton / 

(https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/10/hr-has-lost-the-trust-of-employees-here-is-who-has-it-now/)

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Human resources has to be one of the greatest bait-and-switch professions one can join today. HR departments position themselves with a forward-facing fluffy image, whether improving the productivity of workers through training and development programs or perhaps righting the yawning inequality gap in America by encouraging diverse hiring standards. Unsurprisingly, the field often attracts starry-eyed idealists, people who seek a mission-oriented, perhaps even noble profession for their careers. They join thinking they are going to make a difference.

Then the corruption happens.

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Jun 24

Ten Life Lessons My Horrible Bosses Taught Me

Liz Ryan , CONTRIBUTOR Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.

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Like most people I have worked for some incredible managers — and some incredibly bad ones.

I’ve worked for people that taught me powerful lessons about business and life.

I’ve worked for people who made my life miserable, too.

Here are ten life lessons I learned from my worst bosses. Everybody we encounter has something to teach us!

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Jun 24

Paul Tremont on leadership: Know your strengths and weaknesses to build a stronger team

Paul Tremont is president and chief executive officer of SRC Inc., which is aggressively recruiting high-tech talent to Central New York. The company is known for its community involvement, especially in helping local schools to succeed.
Paul Tremont is president and chief executive officer of SRC Inc., which is aggressively recruiting high-tech talent to Central New York. The company is known for its community involvement, especially in helping local schools to succeed. (Courtesy SRC)
By Stan Linhorst
StanLinhorst@gmail.com,
syracuse.com

Paul Tremont is president and chief executive officer of SRC Inc.

The company started at Syracuse University in 1957 as Syracuse University Research Corp. SU spun it off as an independent entity in the mid-1970s.

Since then, the company, headquartered in Cicero, has grown in a variety of defense, environment, intelligence, and related high-tech fields with offices and support locations in the U.S. and Australia.

About 800 of its 1,200 employees are based in Central New York. Over the next five years, the company expects to nearly double, hiring 1,000 people, many of them scientists and engineers.

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Jun 24

Why Do So Many Managers Forget They’re Human Beings?

Rasmus Hougaard
Jacqueline Carter
Vince Brewerton
(https://hbr.org/2018/01/why-do-so-many-managers-forget-theyre-human-beings)

In our assessments, surveys, and interviews of over a thousand leaders, many comments stood out, but one in particular was especially powerful and thought-provoking. “Leadership today,” Javier Pladevall, CEO of Volkswagen Audi Retail in Spain, told us, “is about unlearning management and relearning being human.”

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