INITIATE: Dress for Success?

July 16, 2009

Dress for success.  You have probably heard the phrase many times.  My first reaction to hearing it was mainly skepticism towards the sense of superficiality that came with the message.  I used to respond with questions (silently, in my head of course) such as “how can people possibly define and measure success by the way [...]

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INITIATE: Personal Innovation through Performance Measurement

June 30, 2009

Competition and proper reward structures encourage people and organizations to constantly renew, improve, and reinvent what already exists into something better.   In order for such innovation to take place, an accurate evaluation of the previous or current state is required.  Without knowing what to improve on, and by how much, it is impossible to move [...]

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INITIATE: Interview Tip – “Don’t Forget to Ask for the Job!”

June 23, 2009

Just a few months ago, I was consulting a recent college graduate on her job search process.  With a graduation date coinciding with times of intense economic distress, the odds were stacked greatly against her – even as a dean’s list scholar and multiple-honors graduate from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.  I had been [...]

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INITIATE: Are You Learning?

June 16, 2009

If you thought that graduating from college was the end of your intellectual growth, guess again.  Learning is a life-long endeavor that happens in so many contexts.  The only difference after college is that the context and environment in which it happens just shifts.  Every new experience, project, meeting, training session is a new opportunity [...]

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INITIATE: Journaling – A Way to Mentor Yourself

June 5, 2009

There are many ways to self-evaluate, inspire, and coach yourself along your career path, and the tools or products to facilitate the process are abundant today.  What I want to highlight, however, isn’t so much another book or seminar series that usually contain phrases such as ‘…for dummies’ or ‘your way to…’.  Rather, I want [...]

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