About ninety percent of the things in our lives are right and about ten percent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the ninety percent that are right, and ignore the ten percent that are wrong. If we want to be worried and bitter...
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Leaders across Indianapolis and throughout Indiana are always looking for new talent. In Major League Baseball, it takes less than a season of losing to trade off veterans for new and dynamic talent. In organizations, it often does not work exactly that way; but these businesses who are struggling on virtually any front will...
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Interviews are often hard to come by, so don’t spoil all your work to this point. The following points represent 10 of the biggest interview-killers interviewees often commit and how you can easily avoid each one of them: Neglecting to ask specific questions — Arrive with a list of several prepared questions about the...
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It’s human nature to be nervous about an upcoming interview. Besides trying to find out all you can about the company, you need to present yourself in the best light possible and prove that you’d be a valuable asset. The anxiety that comes with interviewing can be lessened, however, if you remember that job...
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Preparing for a job interview is hard, and it is no wonder why so many people worry about them. Part of this is because most people don’t have a lot of experience marketing themselves to others. We are taught as kids that we are supposed to be humble and not brag about what we...
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People tend to have much more faith in ideas that we discover for ourselves rather than ideas that are handed to us on a silver platter. And if that’s true, isn’t it bad judgment to try to ram your opinions down the throats of other people? Isn’t is wiser to make suggestions—and let the...
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Preparing for a job interview is hard, and it is no wonder why so many people worry about them. Part of this is because most people don’t have a lot of experience marketing themselves to others. We are taught as kids that we are supposed to be humble and not brag about what we...
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In this “quicker and faster” day and age, is a 40 hour week enough to do all the things that are expected of us? Some surveys show that the average workweek has actually decreased to 39.2 hours. With less, rather than more, time, how could we possibly be completing all our work and getting...
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Alfred Adler, a famous Viennese psychologist, wrote a book entitled, “What Life Should Mean to You.” In that book he says, “It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that...
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New Year’s Eve is tomorrow and are you still looking for something to do say goodbye to 2011 and welcome 2012 in with friends and family? Thanks to the folks at Dale Carnegie of Indianapolis and Fox 59, we have put together this list of events you might wish to check out. Children’s Museum...
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