Sales Pro, Know Thyself!Keeping your CoolAs a salesperson it is one of our prime objectives to keep our cool and manage our emotions. When we let customers get underneath our skins and effect what we are doing that is when we need to take a time out and readjust...
You've no doubt heard the news: Chiropractors are working harder for less reward and scores within the profession are teetering on the edge of career burnout as a result. They're not alone. Burnout is rampant in a great many occupations and studies show individuals in the helping professions are...
[The embedded nature of the terrorist risk appears to demand the treatment of one's neighbour as potentially both friend and foe. One of the consequences is the application of 'all-risks' policing measures, such as stop and search powers. But can this wide casting of the intelligence web or the application...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Most coaches will have reflected on themselves as part of their development journey towards becoming a professional coach. In fact, being a reflective practitioner is part of the accreditation scheme for leading coaching bodies like the Association for Coaching AC, as well as forming part of...
If you think getting past round one - the campus interview with a corporate recruiter was tough, be ready for round two -the invite to the corporation. The Bar is undoubtedly a bit higher. You're a serious contender. Come out looking like you came to compete. ...
Byline: RICH THOMASELLI industry, heal thyself. The pharmaceutical industry is finally acknowledging that it needs a new marketing prescription after a perfect storm of waning patience in Congress, incredulousness from the medical community and growing angst ...
Last summer I took five days to travel to Dolly Sods, a wilderness area in the Allegheny National Forest, with one of my institution's sixteen summer excursions designed to introduce first-year students to institutional expectations, campus culture, study skills, other students, and themselves. Doing without cell phones-let alone restroom...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LLEGÓ PARA TRIUNFAR Issac Delgado is a man caught up in his own history. An anomaly, if you will. It's difficult to classify him. He is often referred to as a "salsa singer," even though most hard-core salseros would disagree with...
Fathers and Sons The Autobiography of a Family Alexander Waugh Nan A. Talese, $27.50, 480 pp. In Fathers and Sons, Alexander Waugh tosses out the old maxim, "Know thyself!" and replaces it with "Know thy roots!" Grandson of novelist Evelyn, son of...
Byline: Chris Taylor How competitive is the ad business? Just ask acting legend Bruce Willis, who played an ad exec in the recent thriller "Perfect Stranger.'' Willis, a fearless type who has faced nearly every possible villain in the "Die...
Advisors may realize the importance of conducting their practice like a business, but according to a recent report, surprisingly few actually do so. The Curian Advisor Survey by Denver-based Curian Capital of 880 independent advisors found that 70% had not established criteria to determine whether or not a client is...
If you have your personal finances under control and in great shape, read no further. If you're confident and happy with the state of your finances, don't waste your time here. On the other hand, if you'd like to improve your financial situation, avoid some of themore common...
FLYEING WITH A TWIST "The purpose of dumbbell flyes is to fully stretch and contract the pecs, so I try to maximize this by twisting the dumbbells through each rep. In the top position, the dumbbells are together and my palms are facing each other,...
Byline: ANDY HOUGHTON Read the resumes of today's senior marketing professionals and you'll find no shortage of market-facing skills: exceptional analytical ability, extensive experience with branding, advertising and consumer insights and a talent for making marketing messages stick. ...
Just as Socrates stated that the path of wisdom comes from knowing thyself, San Diego's movers and shakers are embarking on an exploratory path they hope will lead the region to a stronger economic position. The San Diego Partnership for the Global Economy will bring together leaders from...
The first Shrek movie kicked off to the strains of Smash Mouth's "All Star," the worst hit song of 1999; Shrek the Third, the latest and lousiest installment in the saga, includes a cover of Heart's "Barracuda" performed by Fergie, a pillow-lipped chanteuse best known for her...
Knowing others as well as "thyself" is the key to a good relationship AS a CSR, your job is to provide excellent customer service to the producers' clients, understand their issues and keep everyone happy. But wait! Do the producers themselves understand your issues and try to...
Know thyself. The unexamined life is not worth living.--Socrates The question of whether leaders are "born" or "made" often arises as we explore new ways to develop more effective leaders. Some are convinced that leaders are simply born, that genetics determine a person's ability to become a...
Whether it is an eerily human bot in a virtual-reality game, an animal looking at you with soulful eyes or a patient in a vegetative state, the question nags and nags and won't go away: is there a thinking, self-aware, conscious mind in there? Not one that merely exhibits intelligence,...
Sir: Paul Johnson's list of European worst characteristics ('French arrogance, Italian corruption . . . ') seems quite comprehensive (And another thing, 14 April). Did his Catholic education not include, however, the practice of examination of conscience, itself dear to the Holy Father? Such an examen would surely uncover a...
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