Tag Archive | "Strategic Thinking"

Facing Facts

February 20, 2010 View Comments

Some people have a knack for walking into roles for which they are, on paper at least, entirely unqualified. Passion and wanting it so much it hurts, as any failed Australian or American Idol contestant can tell you, doesn’t make it happen for the rest of us. I’ve seen hundreds of people over the last [...]

It’s not over until an offer is made.

December 4, 2009 View Comments

The interview is over. Phew! What a relief! The hard work is done and now it is up to the “powers that be” to make a decision. You’ve done as much as you can do and now it’s just a waiting game. Really? You don’t have any niggling concerns about: That project that you really [...]

Reputation Killers: A Personal PR Disaster

November 27, 2009 View Comments

Your reputation is one thing you can’t buy, beg, borrow or steal. Your reputation is yours alone, built by your actions–how well you perform, how you treat those around you up-and-down the ladder, your intelligence and your ethics. Today, more than at any other time, your actions and deeds can be widely communicated through co-worker [...]

You’re leaving? Is the grass ever really greener?

October 20, 2009 View Comments

There are some perfectly valid reasons to leave your current company. An entrenched bullying culture, where management pay lip service but nothing ever changes. Serious mismanagement where you know that any moment auditors will be walking in the door and closing things down You are fighting an uphill battle against a family-owned and operated company, [...]