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Not everyone is in the position for doing this. But, Let’s say that you’re single, a year or two removed from college, and you could live off savings and family’s support for a year. You have a promising job at a Fortune 500 company. You’re given an opportunity to pursue your dream job. However, there [...]

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When I graduated from college in 1997, I had three job offers: Job offer #1 was from Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), a large professional service firm. Job offer #2 was from a medium sized, publicly traded enterprise software company. This company had about 600 employees, and just went public a few years earlier. It was [...]

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This is a serious problem. It’s more common than you might think. It’s heart wrenching for the parents and siblings. No matter how accomplished and wealthy they are, they feel powerless in dealing with this problem. In the past few years, directly and indirectly, I have known several families who are facing this very difficult [...]

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A lot of people go through their lives without knowing what they want. I used to be that way myself. As I wrote in your relationship with your parents have a lot to do with your career success, around the time I graduated from college, I came to the painful realization that I didn’t know [...]

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This year marks the tenth year of my career. In other words, not counting the two years of business school, I’ve been slaving away in Corporate America for a decade. Ten years is a long time. Life is short. Lately, I have been doing a lot of reflection and thinking about the past, present and [...]

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A few years ago I attended a seminar taught by a retired executive. He was partner at a major investment bank, served as CEO of a large corporation, and worked in the white house. From a professional standpoint, he was highly successful. Using his own words, "I won the economic game."  However, his son was [...]

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Don’t set new year resolutions. For most people, it’s a waste of time. New year resolutions is like the annual planning processes in some companies. You set a number of grand goals. You’re gong-ho about the goals for a few weeks. Then, you get distracted and stop working toward the goals. Try something new and [...]

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Has someone told you in the past that "you’re too sensitive"? Have you ever told someone that he or she was too sensitive? Between seventh grade and my first year after college, I was frequently labeled as "overly sensitive". I absolutely hated it. Growing up, I knew I was different from a lot of people. [...]

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I read a lot of blogs. Blogs might have some grammatical or spelling errors, but a lot of bloggers really know their stuff. They are subject matter experts. They are authentic, insightful, and prolific. I trust well-known bloggers more than most journalists. A lot of journalists don’t know what they’re talking about. They’re simply a [...]

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I have read Bread and Butter: What a Bunch of Bakers Taught Me About Business and Happiness three times. It has fundamentally changed how I look at work and life. A few years ago, when I was living in Chicago, I visited the Great Harvest Bread store in Evanston, IL. I loved their bread. I [...]

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