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Career Bites #10: Be a Longterm Visionary
Being a longterm visionary is a cure for Short Term Myopia and Option Paralysis. Try this quick exercise to help steer your career.
How to Rock a Professional Conference
A professional conference is a great opportunity to create career social churn, support and inspiration. Here's how to make the most of one.
Career Bites #9: Be of Service
Want to have more impact in your career? It’s easy. Just ask yourself this one question: How can I be of service? The download our 67 ideas!
Career Bites #8: Build Your Resume
Learn how to build your resume through expanded impact and measurable results. Follow these tips to make it easy to impress with your resume.
Career Bites #7: Say Thanks
Don't just say thanks. Use Vivid Appreciation: the art of giving back by letting people share your success and be inspired. Learn how.
Career Bites #6: Get Mentors
Mentorship is part of how we grow. Mentors are people whose wisdom makes your journey easier. You can’t achieve full potential without them.
Career Bites #5: Be Curious
Be curious. Ask questions about how the world works. It will make you a better thinker & leader. Download our free market sizing problem set!
Career Bites #4: Be a Risk Taker
Are you a Risk-Taker? Would you call yourself brave? You need to be if you want a fulfilling career. Here's why and how to cultivate courage.
Career Bites #3: Be Kind
Workplace Kindness is an underestimated way to advance your career. You need to hustle. But unlike hard work, kindness never goes unnoticed.
Career Bites #2: Knowledge Capital
Jobs pay in two currencies – cash and knowledge capital. Develop knowledge you can take with you, don’t just master the firm’s way.
The Awesome Informational Interview
Want to research potential firms & impress networking contacts? Here is our 7-Step Process for conducting an Awesome Informational Interview.
Career Bites #1: Explore Preferences
Explore preferences; decide what you like and what matters to you. If you don’t know what you want, it's hard to make confident choices.
Resilience: Get Good at Failing
Resilience allows you to grow. If you know how to fail, then you know how to succeed. Follow these 3 easy steps to turn setbacks into wins.
Confident Humility:Key to Successful Interviews
Confident humility is required to live a full and happy life. It's a founding principle for Berkeley Haas and Google seeks in its employees.
5 Tips for Upward Management
Upward Management may be the most undervalued skill for professional success. If you are a great upward manager you will also advance rapidly.
Death to the Elevator Pitch
You have to stop using your Elevator Pitch to introduce yourself at Networking Events. Try a better way to connect.
Listen! Avoid Awkward Networking Moments
Listen! Avoid Awkward Networking Moments. Listen here to find out how to gain access to any networking conversation without being an arse.
None of Your Beeswax! Understand Social Distance
Understanding Social Distance is your key to confidence in any professional networking situation – even when you are outside of your culture.
How to Turn a Disparaging Comment into Useful Feedback
Sometimes feedback takes the form of a disparaging comment. Instead of letting them get you down, here's how to use them to grow.
Networking Your Way to Real Friendship
Did you think that the purpose of a networking event was to impress people? Take the transaction out of networking and get people to like you.
10 ways to show your target schools the love
MBA deadlines are approaching fast, so here are 10 creative ways to demonstrate your interest in schools before you apply.
How to Say Thanks the Right Way
People help you grow and advance. They create opportunities for you. Appreciation is the secret key to keeping good energy flowing to and through you.
Take the Right Advice from the Right People
Internet searching is an indispensable skill. But sometimes the things you need to know can’t be learned online. There is no substitute for mentorship.
Your Initiative is the Key to Unlocking Opportunity
Resumes are all about impact & positive contributions to meaningful outcomes. Want to have more impact and contribute towards meaningful outcomes? It’s easy.
How to Actually Enjoy the MBA Application Process
I use these secrets to coach my clients to amazing outcomes while bringing out their authentic voices so they get more than just a stellar application.
But Do You Really Know What You Want?
But Do You Really Know What You Want? Explore Preferences: If you don’t know what you want, it will be hard to make confident choices.
5 Questions with MBA Admissions Consultant Angela Guido
I help aspiring business leaders understand their strengths, how to communicate them & achieve their goals, and build strong professional relationships.
Master your future: How to be a Long Term Visionary and a Short Term Pragmatist
What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a question I’m still asking after more than 3 decades. And that’s as it should be.
Don’t Waste Your MBA Career Pivot: Advice For New Admits
Here are some things you can do now to get ahead of the game. Taking these steps before classes begin will help ensure your success in the internship race.
5 Ways to Bring More Fun & Connection to Your Office
If you’re feeling stuck in the rut of just getting your work done, try a few of these ideas for how to bring more fun and connection to your office.
Loads of Amazing Free MBA Application Advice
Loads of Amazing Free MBA Application Advice! Here are some of my choicest pieces of advice for MBA applicants, rising MBAs, and even folks on the waitlist.
How to choose the right MBA Program for you
Did you get into multiple schools? It's a tough decision! This is for people who have the problem of having to choose between rival offers for MBA admission.
How to Write an Awesome Recommendation
Writing great recommendations isn’t rocket science. If you just keep a few principles in mind, you too can be a ninja recommender!
I gave up second guessing my decisions. Here's what happened
I couldn't accept the decisions I made. Then I made peace with them and discovered something new. It got easier to make decisions!
The 8 things every leader must do before 8AM
You are awesome without having to try. I recommend doing more things that bring you joy because that is the best path to fulfilling your ultimate purpose.