“Christopher Columbus was the best deal maker in history. He left not knowing where he was going, and upon arriving, not knowing where he was. He returned not knowing where…
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If you’re going to stay in the world of day jobs instead of launching out on your own, that means accepting certain realities about your career path. That’s not good…
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Suppose you have a great product or service to sell, or for that matter a great story to tell, and you just happen to be shy. Despite what they may…
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While there are many reports published about the rate of failure of new business ventures, few of them are encouraging. A study by a Harvard Business School senior lecturer provides…
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It’s difficult not to commiserate with Abe Gorelick. In the April 3, 2014 New York Times profile of him in its Business Day section, the Boston ex-marketing executive is portrayed…
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Americans have a long tradition of packing up and moving to find better opportunities. Covered wagons streamed west in the early 1800s, packed with people willing to brave the hazards…
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You’ve encountered bad leaders in the work place. You’ve seen the boss’s son — the character who, just because he was born on third base, suffers from the illusion that…
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“The merry-go-round is beginning to taunt me / Have I stayed too long at the fair?” — Barbra Streisand (lyrics from a song written by William C. Barnes) The thirty-year hanger-on. Otherwise…
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There’s an unfortunate impression that seems to have taken root in our culture, that people don’t like to work and will naturally just lay around all day if they could…
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Everyday millions of Americans head off to work with the illusion that they’ll still have a job at the end of the day. In fairness, the odds are in their…