Posts Tagged ‘career’

The Other Epidemic Of Obesity

It’s high time business slimmed down and stopped fooling itself with crash ‘diets’ of job cuts and outsourcing

The media are happy to keep reminding us that people in the developed world, especially the United States, are growing ever fatter; that obesity starts in childhood and continues thereafter to pump itself up on a diet of junk food, sodas, and ’super-sized’ portions.

Yet what we almost never hear about is… » Continue

April 23 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: business, career, success, waste | 4 comments»

Job Satisfaction: Can You Love the One You’re With Before You Move On?

Have you ever noticed how jobs are like love affairs? You hit a bump in the road, even a patch of bumps, and there you are, climbing in bed with the statistics and making the livelihood you love all wrong. One day you wake up and say something like, “This job is just not giving me what I want; it’s not fun or challenging or collaborative anymore.” And you… » Continue

February 18 2008 | By Lisa | Tagged: career, happiness, job-satisfaction, work | 4 comments»

8 Ways to Take It to the Next Level

No matter what you’re doing, there comes a time when you are going to want to take things up a notch. Maybe it’s your career — even if things are going along fine right now, ultimately you’d like to get a promotion, increase your client base, or reach a larger audience. Or maybe it’s a hobby that you think you’d like to turn into a career.

Getting started… » Continue

February 4 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: branding, career, marketing, niche, Productivity, success | 17 comments»

7 Habits To Win In Office Politics

Office politics - a taboo word for some people. It’s a pervasive thing at the workplace. In it’s simplest form, office politics is simply about the differences between people at work; differences in opinions, conflicts of interests are often manifested as office politics. It all goes down to human communications and relationships.

There is no need to be afraid of office politics. Top performers are those who have mastered the… » Continue

January 24 2008 | By Lawrence | Tagged: career, conflict_resolution, Management, office_politics | 14 comments»

How to Back-up Your Life

Too often people go through life with a tunnel vision approach of how they plan to go about their daily activities, long term goals and work related endeavors. Any well thought-out strategy is successful because the planners know that “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry”.

Life is always tossing in the monkey wrench. You should never assume that what you plan today will… » Continue

January 17 2008 | By AJ | Tagged: backup, career, home, planning | 19 comments»

How to Become a Pop Star

I was 16, good looking, and with a great voice: I could see myself walking on the red carpet, and success was just around the corner. Or so I thought…

With my little band made up of two people and one very expensive laptop, I decided to find venues that would pay me to entertain their customers: “I’ll make lots of money, and a big… » Continue

January 15 2008 | By Marco | Tagged: career, howto, justin, music, popstar, self-improvement | 21 comments»

Lifehack Readers’ Advice for College Graduates

Last week, I asked lifehack.org readers, “What advice would you offer to a recent college graduate entering your field?” The response was great, with a dozen readers offering excellent advice not just for their fields, but for college graduates faced with the prospect of building a life as well.

My own advice follows the same pattern; although directed at future academics, it is applicable to anyone looking to enter… » Continue

December 17 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice, career, college, finance, frugality, learning, networking, student | 17 comments»

We Ask, You Answer: Advice for Recent Grads

Every Monday, we pose a question for the lifehack.org community to answer. The following Monday, I post my answer along with a selection (depending on how many there are) of your responses. The idea is to give you a chance to share your knowledge with the rest of the lifehack.org community — and to give you the opportunity to see what your fellow lifehack.org readers are doing!

This… » Continue

December 10 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice, career, college_grad, question | 17 comments»

How to Avoid Getting Fired by Facebook

Donald Trump may have gone out and trademarked the term “You’re Fired”, but he is going to have a hard time competing with Facebook.

Everything is public. Act as though it is going to be on the front page of the New York Times tomorrow. Facebook just announced that in a matter of a few days or weeks, it will become indexed by the colossal Google search engine. People are… » Continue

September 13 2007 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: career, facebook, Management | 16 comments»

Where Your Priorities Lie At Work

What are your career goals? Are you focused on where you actually want to be or are you only looking at the bottom of the pyramid?

Which pyramid?

I want to direct your attention now to a diagram that will help you visualize the hopeless treadmill of any career not based on personal fulfillment. The left side of the picture below illustrates Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (published in his 1943… » Continue

September 3 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: career | 3 comments»

How To Get Your Perfect Career

All the reasons you are stuck in a profession you don’t like and want to get out of don’t really exist. You have the ability to shift careers and do what you love.

1. Job hunt all the time.
You’re managing your career all the time, so if you’re not constantly looking around to see what opportunities are there for you, how will you find them? No one is steering… » Continue

August 10 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: career | 6 comments»

Is Career Planning Really Necessary?

This is a tricky area when we talk about how much you should be planning in your career, especially in regards to students. Is it worthwhile putting in a whole lot of work early to find that you would much rather do something else?

The question is, how much can you actually know about yourself years down the line? This article explores career planning and why you’re probably going to… » Continue

August 7 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: career | 6 comments»

How to build your business before quitting your day job

Like diving from a cliff the first time, leaving your job to dedicate yourself to your own business can be quite daunting prospect. There should be much more consideration to making a decision to quit your job than simply “look before you leap.” There are ways to approach this without burning bridges, while building wealth and increasing the likelihood of success in the new venture.

Determine a good crossover… » Continue

August 2 2007 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: career, marketing, venture | 38 comments»

Success recipes most people know, but too few follow

If you want to look back on a life that fills you with joy, conventional rules for success are not the place to start

Don’t chase money, power, or status.
If they come to you, that’s fine. But most conventional ideas about success go wrong because they focus on outcomes instead of on the processes of living. Outcomes come around from time to time, but life itself—the process of living

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July 2 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, career, success | 40 comments»

How to Deal with a Nightmare Boss

The Nightmare Boss

“Nightmare bosses” can take on many forms, but 6 major categories come to mind: the Demanding Boss, the Bully Boss, and the Disorganized Boss, the Clueless Boss, the Know-It-All Boss, and the Poor-Communicator Boss. I’m sure there are others and often several of these traits can be found in your boss. A bad boss can have advantages if you use the situation as an opportunity rather… » Continue

June 5 2007 | By K. | Tagged: boss, career, difficult, goals, people, success | 2 comments»