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Category: career planning
The Power of Asking For Help
Why do we often wait until we’re desperate to seek outside help in our work? Asking for help should be just another step in our process — one that happens early on.
Designing A Work-life Balance in The Bay Area
Despite a heavy travel schedule, a long commute, and being in a competitive field – I’ve found a few tricks to keep a balance that works well for me and my work-life.
Why Should Leadership Replace Our Personality?
People come in all shapes and sizes. How does your individual personality enhance your leadership?
The making of an Olympian
What we can all learn from Olympians about life and career while Preston shared upcoming X1 experience for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
5 Questions to Ask Yourself before Applying to Business School
This time of year I often get asked by people for advice on whether they should apply to business school for an MBA. Over the years and many coffees with folks, I’ve settled on the following key questions… Why do I want an MBA? I’ve heard of a number of reasons but they mostly seem to…
A new lens on Myers-Briggs
As part of my leadership course at UC Berkeley I recently took a hybrid self-assessment, facilitated by CPP, which combines the power of Myers-Briggs’ MBTI with a less well known assessment called FIRO-B. First introduced by William Schutz in 1958, the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation (FIRO), analyzes the dimensions of Inclusion, Control and Affection. It…
Vital Friends
I have to admit I’m a junkie for the Gallup Press line of business books and Tom Rath’s latest Vital Friends is no exception. Rath asserts that we all are motivated and deeply affected by the friends that we keep. They play a key role in how happy we are, whether we stay at our…
Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
In reading What Makes a Leader? (Goleman) I learned that while technical skills and IQ are important for senior managers to succeed it is emotional intelligence that is actually the most critical. As a long-time believer in soft skills I did not have any difficulty believing this assertion. Emotional Intelligence’s Five Components: Self-Awareness: The ability…
How to Play to Your Strengths
In the article How to Play to Your Strengths I learned about a career planning technique that focuses on 100% positive feedback—that’s right no “constructive feedback”. The article outlines that it’s human nature to focus on the negatives (when asked people remember four negative memories for every single positive one). And yet far too often,…