Showing Posts from: David Harder
Finding Your Dream Job – Part 2
A Whole New Interview Mindset “Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.” Mary Kay Ash Great interviews are not about you. Our greatest […]
Finding Your Dream Job – Part 1
In searching for that perfect and ideal job, it is valuable to build positive characteristics into your search. In fact, finding the dream job requires a vitally different mindset than the norm. The suggested outlook isn’t fixated on success. Instead, we want to take every action that increases our probability […]
Today, How Do You Want to Use Your Life?
Many of my friends and readers represent some of the most positive thinkers and doers in our culture. That said, we are now spending so much time reading, watching, viewing, observing, discoursing and becoming energized about the worst in our culture, that we are losing some of the very […]
HER – The Miracle Future We Can Give Our Children
About 2 years ago, I became really concerned about where our country is headed. My fears were not based on our political landscape, it was from the research we conducted for my last book. Right now, we are facing the biggest restructuring of work since the Industrial Revolution. Alarmingly, about […]
What Einstein Taught Me About My Ass
There was a common presentation Albert Einstein made to students of physics. He would step towards the chalkboard and draw a circle. He’d command, “Let’s talk about our awareness of the universe and the nature of knowledge itself. Inside this circle is everything that we know.” He’d write the word […]
3 Necessities to Stay Out of That Pesky Career Dinosaur Club!
Virtually every month, someone got in my office and claimed a particular employer has age bias. Last week, I asked someone what happened. She went on to tell me that an interview with a company she found very attractive ended pretty quickly. She complained, “People in the film industry are […]
Does Your Tribe Own You or Support You?
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. – Richard Bach Over the years, we have helped thousands of people define their best professional options, the work they were born to do, as well as […]
Politics? How Business Has Transformed Civil Rights!
The culture of outrage has always been with us. Today, we are more aware of it due to the immediacy of social media. The biggest problem about the practice of outrage is that it detours us from making positive change, especially in our own lives and the people we touch. […]
Why Must We Unlearn?
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Alvin Toffler – Futurist It has been said that love & hate cannot occupy the same space. The same can be said of truth […]
Why the Employer Brand Became More Important Than the Consumer Brand
Who would you rather work for? United Airlines or Southwest Airlines? Google or Yahoo? Vons/Safeway or Trader Joe’s? Odds are high that you have identified the better employer with each example simply through word-of-mouth or direct customer experience. Or, you might be seriously interested in working for one of these […]