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19 Aug

What are the delusions we all share about career success?

 
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I was interviewed on Total Picture Radio about my presentation on “The Ten Cultural Career Lies.” You can listen to the episode as we explore what we believe about careers that’s just plain wrong.

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16 Aug

It’s not so easy to say “subprime borrowers” should be responsible.

The New York Times had an article today on the advertising campaigns that led to the spate of subprime borrowing.

The reader comments fall into two broad categories: “Borrowers should have known what they were getting into.” and “Big, bad, evil banks.” I think both attitudes are naive.
Borrowers should have known… Really?

Borrowers should have known? How? [...]

23 Jun

Groupthink, brainwashing, and politics (hopefully fixed)

This post kept appearing and reappearing in my RSS feed. I’ve deleted it and am re-creating it in the hopes that the strange behavior will stop happening. Fingers are crossed.
Maybe you’ve been successfully brainwashed and just don’t know it. How would you? … Find the transcript of this podcast at http://www.steverrobbins.com/articles/groupthink-brainwashing-politics.htm.

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20 Jun

Giving just may be the path to success

 
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In this Business Explained podcast, I talk with Bob Burg, co-author of The Go-Giver, a current best-selling business book that lays out the five principles of why Giving just may be the key to success. This is a companion interview to the Get-it-Done Guy podcast episode, Giving to Build Success.

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09 Jun

Corrupt research, even at Harvard

I just read this article in the New York times. Harvard Researchers who study child psychiatry have done research credited with vastly increasing the diagnosis of childhood bipolar disorder. That increase comes with a pretty hefty boost to sales of prescription medication for the condition. And oh, yes, the researchers have received over $1 million [...]

27 Apr

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

 
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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.”

26 Feb

Getting your CEO’s attention

 
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This podcast is an interview with Alec Hudnut, CEO of Evolution Robotics, discussing how to get your CEO’s attention.

21 Feb

Update your user experience…or die!

 
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Are you up to date with your user experience? Tune into this podcast to find out. Click here to see a transcript of this episode.

28 Jan

Happy or Successful? Which will you pursue?

 
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On a recent birthday I was looking back at the strategies that my friends from high school and college and I employed to get where we are today. We assumed that success would bring happiness, and as far I can tell, we were wrong. It turns out that the two are separate, even [...]

07 Jan

Marshall Goldsmith on Peer Coaching (part 2)

 
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Marshall Goldsmith is an amazing executive coach. He has worked with several Fortune 500 CEOs and is currently a best-selling author (#1 on Amazon.com in the Leading People category). He has developed a couple of peer coaching techniques that will let you and any supportive friend coach each other to superb results. In this podcast, [...]

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