It’s not working. You’ve updated your LinkedIn profile with the help of a professional resume writer. You’ve contacted everyone in your network and beyond. You optimize your resume to hack ATS’s. You’ve lost count of how many jobs you applied to, most of them loosely related to the expertise you’ve built throughout your career, or…
Don’t be a candidate In last week’s blog post, I discussed the importance of taking control of the narrative during an interview. When you lead the narrative, you’re doing what executives do: taking ownership of an important outcome and making sure the right information is exchanged to enable a good decision. Today, I’d like to…
Don’t be a candidate. Congrats, you’re invited for an interview for this role you applied to! This is hopefully the first step of many: you’ll have five, ten conversations, maybe more, with different people across the organization. Get ready! Interviews are rarely coordinated. Each person is gathering different pieces of the puzzle and running their…
You’re looking for a job: don’t become a Candidate. I’m not telling you not to look for your next role. I’m telling you to remain the Leader you are while doing so. Because the moment you switch to Candidate mode – needy, desperate, grateful for any consideration, the downward spiral starts. And it will crush…
Poker Face Remember Casino Royale? In the 2006 movie, James Bond makes it seem like winning at poker is about decoding the opponent’s “tell”: the subtle twitch of the eyebrow, the cough, the tiny involuntary gestures that betray that someone is trying to hide something. In his book One Plus One Equals Three, Dave Trott…
Especially the ones designed to make you invisible. In 1984, Michael Jordan walked onto the basketball court wearing black and red Air Jordans. There was just one problem: the NBA required shoes to be at least 51% white. Nike knew the rules. They knew they’d be fined $5,000 per game. Nike had decided to enter…
When a top performer unexpectedly becomes a low performer. Address capacity first.
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