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Data Mining the Mint.com Demographic

Mint is already aggregating data from its 1.5 million users and mining it for personal spending trends. Now the newly-acquired company is planning to sell that data on a case-by-case basis.READ»

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Mint's Founder Gets Control of Intuit's Personal Finance Division

Yesterday, we reported that popular personal finance site Mint.com would be sold to Intuit for $170 million, just a few weeks after Founder and CEO Aaron Patzer closed a fresh $14 million round of "preemptive" funding. "We could have ...READ»

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Should I Find a better career?

It's a recession -- but I don't like my job. Now what?READ»

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Thank You Notes and Success

Interpersonal competence is one of the keys to career and life success I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Career.  If you want to become interpersonally competent, you need to do ...READ»

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Overcome Writer's Block for Success

Dynamic communication is one of the keys to personal and professional success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to become a dynamic communicator, you need ...READ»

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Action Creates Success

Outstanding performance is one of the keys to success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to be an outstanding performer you need to do three things.  1) ...READ»

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Twitter Your Way to Success

Positive personal impact is one of the keys to c areer and life success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to create positive personal impact you need to do ...READ»

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Success and Overcoming Fear

Self confidence is one of the keys to career and life success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to become self confident you need to do three things.  ...READ»

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Resolve Conflict Positively for Success

Interpersonal Competence is one of the keys to personal and professional success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to become interpersonally competent you ...READ»

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Persuasive Communication and Career Success

Dynamic communication skills are one of the keys to personal and professional success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to become a dynamic communicator, ...READ»

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Interviewer Psychology: What If the Interviewer Isn't American?

Interviewees for positions at true MNCs' are now seeing more and more Interviewers who weren't born and raised on U.S. soil. If you think this doesn't matter, you're wrong. Quick Tip: Your Interviewer likely isn't bumping 50 Cent's "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" on the way to your interview this morning.READ»

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Learning for Success in Unexpected Places

Outstanding performance is one of the keys to personal and professional success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to become an outstanding performer you ...READ»

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Create Your Success by Asking What You Can Do for Other People

Interpersonal competence is one of the keys to personal and professional success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to become interpersonally competent, you ...READ»

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Resume Writing Tips for Success

Dynamic communications skills are one of the keys to career and life success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to become a dynamic communicator, you need ...READ»

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Positive People, Lifelong Learning and Success

Outstanding performance is one of the keys to career and life success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to become an outstanding performer you need to do ...READ»

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What Not to Wear If You Want to Dress for Success

Ask yourself: "Does what I'm wearing today demonstrate that I respect myself and the people I'll meet today?"READ»

Ivan Glickman

Just What is Design Thinking?—The View from the Blogosphere

There is considerable interest in design thinking and its application to management. A google search on “design thinking” and “management” produced 146,000 items. When “business” is substituted for management the number ...READ»

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How to Search Optimize your Resume – Pt 1

Are you getting a 25% response rate to your resume? If you are, stop reading, this article isn’t for you. If you’re getting less than a 25% response rate to your resume, then your resume is working against you and blocking you ...READ»

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LinkedIN strategies – Tight vs Broad Network

There’s been a controversy going on within the LinkedIN crowd for years. Is it more effective for your job search to build a LinkedIN network of close personal connections? Or instead, build a network with a broad reach, but weak ...READ»

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Finding Career Opportunity In Great China ?

Leading executive search and staffing service provide in Asia Bilast Associates Inc.an Executive Search Firm dedicated to National Executive Search and International Executive Search.Bilast Associates Inc. is designed to ...READ»

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10 Ways to Stay Motivated During your Job Search

How do you stay motivated while in career transition? A reader asked me to cover this topic. Especially during winter…if you live in the Northern part of the US, it’s cold, snowy, and tough. If you’re out of work, this ...READ»

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Academic Advice-Industrial Design & ???

I was wondering if I could ask for some communal advice regarding my current school status. I am an older student currently pursuing an undergraduate industrial design degree and should finish in about 3 years but since I never ...READ»

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You're not cool - I am. What is cool & finding the cool factor.

I'm a firm believer in the fact that every single one of us thinks that we are in fact "cool". I think, err, know, that I am cool because of the clothes that I wear, my long hair is cool, what I do is cool, how I do things, ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
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Free TeleForum with FC "Leading Edge" blogger Dr. Mark Goulston June 25, 12 Noon EST

Dear Friends at Fast Company, I hope you will join me for a free TeleForum hosted by Marshall Goldsmith and Patricia Wheeler on June 25, 12 Noon EST entitled: "Prevent Your Career's Biggest Tragedy." Info below: ...READ»

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Is Our View of "Work" Impacted by 'Mental Maps' Built During the Ages of 11 - 13?

In coming across a very interesting HBR Article from Tamara Erickson, "Are There Gender Differences Within Gen X?", I began to consider how not only the different generations, but also different genders within the ...READ»

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