Archive for Practices for Professionals
How to Prepare Yourself for the Executive Chair
Comedian Steve Martin once said that if you want to be a millionaire, the first thing you have to do is get a million dollars. Most advice for positioning yourself for executive positions mirrors Martin’s sentiments: If you want to land in the executive chair, the first thing you need to do is get executive [...]
Read moreRecommended Resource – How to Win Friends & Influence People
How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie About the Reference How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is the timeless classic that reveals how leaders can engage and motivate individuals to become teams; joining together to achieve a common purpose and produce more than the sum of their singular [...]
Read moreRecommended Resource – Finance Without Fear
Finance Without Fear: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Business by William S. Hettinger and John Dolan-Heitlinger About the Reference Finance Without Fear: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Business by William S. Hettinger and John Dolan-Heitlinger unveals the mysteries of financial statements in this easy-to-understand, example filled book. William and [...]
Read moreRecommended Resource – Getting to Yes
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury About the Reference Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury recognizes that professionals are in a frequent state of negotiation and provides them with the tools needed to achieve a desirable outcome. This book [...]
Read morePractices for Professionals – Effective Use of Discretionary Effort
In this fast-paced marketplace and certainly during these challenging economic conditions, StrategyDriven Professionals typically find themselves working more than forty hours a work. More common among these professionals is a forty-five hour work week with others working fifty hours a week. When these hours are mandated by one’s role, for instance as a rotating shiftwork [...]
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