One of my all time favorite Helen Keller quotes about life reads, “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” As I pondered that quote recently, I also pondered how it applies…
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5 Steps to Land a New Job When You Lack Experience
One of the toughest parts about being a manager is finding the right talent to grow your team. Every time I post an open position online, I have no less than 50 applicants within the first week. The problem is, most of the applicants lack the main skills related to successfully accomplish the job they…
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How to Quit Your Job with Grace & Class
Discover 5 ways to make quitting your job easier.
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No Formal Training Required – A Journey to Marketing Success
Growing up, my dream was to be an elementary school teacher, but after a foreign exchange trip to Germany in high school, I declared my major in college would be international relations. I dreamed of working for the United Nations or being an ambassador for the United States to a foreign country. I had planned…
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10 Success Tips for the Newly Promoted Manager
The accidental manager. Those three words describe how I landed my first management position. I was hired to do marketing for two medical clinics. Within just a few years, we had grown to 14 locations in multiple states. I had been really good at my job, and as the first one hired, I was named…
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5 Ways Letting Go of Fear of Failure Will Push You Towards Success
Imagine how different your world would be today if you hadn’t snubbed your nose at things you initially thought sounded “too good to be true”. Life is full of people who pushed the limits – tried the things others dared not to try – and came out on top. Consider your smartphone. A mere decade…
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What Would Keep You at Your Current Job … and Other Interview Questions
Interviews are a blessing and a curse, no matter which side of the table you’re sitting on during the formal gathering. I read an interesting comment feed on LinkedIN the other day that chastised interviewers for not getting outside the box to really know candidates. People slammed the formalities around Selection Teams who use the…
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Why Hiring for Fit May Be Stopping Business Growth & Change in Your Company
One of the best parts about being fresh out of college is just how naive you are that you can actually change the world. It’s a belief you’ve been taught since you were little, and by the time you’ve received your last A+ on a college project, you know you have a great skill set…
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The One Thing You Must Do to Cut Through the Clutter of a Crowded Marketplace
You’ve probably heard the age old marketing adage that goes something like this, “Marketing isn’t just about saying things differently, it’s also about doing things differently.” In order to be successful in business, you must bring wanted innovation to the marketplace. In doing so, you will carve out a unique selling proposition and build a…
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One Small Blog for One Great Big World
Several years ago I set out on a mission with a partner to build a blog business based entirely around teaching other urgent care owners how to grow and run their medical practices. In just a few short years, we had a list of nearly 10,000 subscribers and were making a descent profit. Then my…
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