Perspectives

14 Business Phrases to Strengthen Your Presence

Working through a corporate system to grasp different styles of how others communicate, listen, and influence remain difficult for many people until they’re poked hard enough or have an epiphany.. I recently came across an odd book, The Leader Phrase Book, 3000 Phrases to Lead By.. Since a phrase isn’t even a cogent sentence, I…
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Illegitimi Non Carborundum

Out for my daily morning constitutional with the dog this morning, and ran into one of the neighbours whom I see sometimes walking his dogs, and exchange pleasantries. I know he’s been looking around the market of late, and asked him if he’d landed any bites. “No, and actually things are getting a bit heated…
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Nosce te ipsum, especially when interviewing

For those who read this regularly, you may know that when it comes to interviewing and hiring, I’m an advocate of knowing your strengths, not dwelling on what you cannot do. Questioning someone to tease out their weaknesses is often a waste, as a smart interviewer will reverse it to show a weakness as a…
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Watch Your Back

I recently caught up over lunch with a friend. She’d recently been promoted, and had to compete for the role with one other person-I’ll call him Ace-who had a more top-down (Oh hell, I’ll say it, micro-managing style) and rigid management style, more filial piety than collaborative, you know the type. Ace was, however, very…
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Check….. Your Move

When I speak to people about what they’re thinking of doing next, some appear to be steadily progressing, others in the midst of curves being thrown at them. We all grapple with future career plans, and how to transition to the next step: Should I stay and tough it out or just get the hell…
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The CV is alive and well, thank you

Last week was typical-I had 4 people ask for help with their CV. All senior, around 25 years work experience, all very smart and polished. None had done a CV in years, hesitant about where to start, length, format, content, buzzwords to put in or avoid. All had a crie de coeur of ‘Aaarrggh, I…
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LinkedIn does NOT solve all hiring

I’ve recently read more and more articles which state, unequivocally, that LinkedIn and social media will disintermediate the executive search business. Companies will seldom need help from headhunters, or even recruiters. It will go the way of the travel agency, and more organisations now tout their internal recruiting arm as a more cost efficient way…
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