by Rick Christensen | May 6, 2021 | Rick Christensen, Successful People, Your Career
For most of the modern history of work, the employer-employee relationship was based on an unwritten “Psychological Contract.” The unwritten rule was that if you worked hard and put in your time, you would be rewarded with continuous employment. It was not uncommon...
by Rick Christensen | May 28, 2020 | Rick Christensen, Successful People
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. – Louis Pasteur Tenacity, the ability to keep going when all signs point to quitting. We can find hundreds of stories of people who didn’t give up. Thomas Edison...
by Rick Christensen | May 21, 2020 | Career Transition, Job Success, Rick Christensen, Success, Successful People
Early in my career I worked with an engineer who had a picture of toad on his desk. This was a huge, fat, green, slimy, wart infested toad. It had to be one of the ugliest creatures on earth. The caption read, “Eat a live toad first thing in...
by Rick Christensen | Apr 2, 2020 | Career Transition, Job Success, Rick Christensen, Successful People
I believe that there is a pattern of behavior among highly successful managers, and that studying what works can help others grow successful without having to go through the same bumps and roadblocks. These are the six traits that I’ve come to believe capture much of...
by Rick Christensen | Feb 20, 2020 | Career Transition, Job Search, Job Success, Rick Christensen, Successful People
Most individuals involved in a job search are not sales professionals, which is why the process is usually “uncomfortable.” A job search requires you to “sell” your experience and skills to a future employer. If you are NOT currently employed, your FULL-TIME job is...
by Mike Duke | Dec 6, 2019 | Executive Coach, High Performance, Job Success, Leadership, Mike Duke, Success, Successful People
4 Business Principles “The definition of Leadership is getting a predetermined objective accomplished through the voluntary efforts of others.” All business can be boiled down to four things: Profits… No profit, no business Products/Services… Your target market must...
