Monthly Archives: April 2008

If you achieve alone in a forest, have you really achieved?

I’ve been exploring ideas around self-promoting at work, being recognized, and motivation as it relates to recognition and achievement. What is the relationship for you between achievement and recognition? How do you know you’ve achieved something? What forms of recognition … Continue reading

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Ten Cultural Career Lies v4 handout

Update the handout again to include a slightly reformatted Happy vs. Successful diagram and a list of my web resources: ten-cultural-career-lies-v4

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How 23-year-old Ryan Allis created a $10 million business in three years

Ryan Allis is the 23-year-old founder of iContact.com, the web’s second biggest marketing website. Ryan spoke in this podcast about how he ended up where he is and the role passion plays in business. This is a companion interview to the Get-it-Done Guy podcast, “Passion Play.” Continue reading

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Can taxes buy happiness?

In yesterday’s post Can money buy happiness, people seemed to agree that money doesn’t buy happiness directly, but it can buy choices, security, freedom, etc., which can help happiness. This question isn’t for the book, but for my own curiosity. … Continue reading

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Oh, crap. Maybe money CAN buy happiness.

Well, isn’t that just the cat’s pajamas. There’s a new study out that shows that happiness may be linked to absolute levels of income, after all. Of course, as the article states, it’s linked to other things as well, like … Continue reading

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