Sharing Sunday, November 8, 2009

Sharing Sunday, November 8, 2009This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- .The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security.Top 10 Posts on CategoriesEach week, I call out good articles from my network and share them with you. Here’s this weeks entries:Leadership Without a Secret Code: an interview with Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard, on what it takes to be a leader. Leading universities is very different than leading a business or a team, of course. But the insistence on communication and knowing what people attribute to leaders make this an informative and interesting read.Refuse to Lose: how executive pressure contributes to IT failure. A good look at the ways managerial pressure to complete IT projects results in failed cutove rs. Been there, done that. There are good principles in here; in this job market, would anyone push back?Using your network to find job opportunities. We don’t network enough. Including me. Plus, 21 tips for networking that Sital notes in the comments. For US readers, “redundancies” means “layoffs,” in case you have not seen the term.Tweet your trysts, not your cysts. Eve takes a hard look a the growing practice of tweeting about medical conditions â€" giving health insurance companies a perfect gateway to turn you down for pre-existing conditions. Or hiring managers casually sticking your resume in the waste basket.18 reasons to love lists. Proponents of Getting Things Done know that checklists are great for continually doing routine things right. But most of us don’t apply that to our job or career. Checklist for hosting a meeting. Checklist for determining if the job is still right for us. Checklist for what to have at home and not work for your career. Yes, I love li sts…Any to add? Pop them in the comments!This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" .The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policiesThe content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers.Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.Copyright 2020 LLC, all rights reserved.