PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - BY JANE CHIN, PH.D.

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OFFICE POLITICS

Would you rather work with a likeable slacker or a competent jerk?

Competition in the work place

How you treat competitors reflects your character

Backstabbing: analyze the situation, not the backstabber

Do backstabbers exist because backstabbing works?

Backstabbing is the biggest driver of corporate cynicism and rot

Ethics start from individual decisions

Don't believe other people's opinions of you: a lesson from All About Eve

The one at the top gets knocked down: a lesson from All About Eve

What would you be willing to do to get ahead in your career?

Do work allies in high places help or harm your career?

Rules of conduct for professionals

COACHING

Most important quality in a coach

Facts and fiction when selecting a coach to work with

Coaching and success

NETWORKING

Steve Woodruff shows how business introductions are done

How to make networking work: what NOT to do

How to make networking work: what to do

OTHER STUFF

Happy Mother's Day from Your Gen-Y Offspring

How do you feel about "best regards"?

A DIFFERENT WAY TO THINK

Soul and integrity of a business

"Climb"

The difference between motivational versus inspirational

Doing what is right

What being an entrepreneur can do for your self confidence

A danger of "experience"

Too much information too few ideas

If you were to go back in time, what would you say to yourself?

"That I Am" (my speech competition transcript)

Do you have entrepreneurial personality?

2 Lessons I learned from participating in a speech contest

My 3 "Secrets of success"

My Crucial "key to success"

What is the quality of the money you earn?

5 Life Lessons I learned from doing comedy improv

Seek and ye shall keep seeking

Once you know your inspiration, you have a choice

10 Years ago and 10 Years from now

3 Ways for the adult child to reclaim your mind from parental manipulation

Life of a dying man versus life of a living dead man

Don't think you deserve it? Go for it, anyway!

Money buys happiness - and more of it!

Hidden costs of your daily work commute

Money, happiness, and work interruptions

Messenger and messages and When the message fits

There is no "one way" to become an entrepreneur

Want something? Ask for it

"Go with what you know"

It is rarely about the opportunity

LEADERSHIP

Leader is a relative term

Blind devotion to role models

Encouragement v. entitlement

Movie "Volver" is an example of how NOT to manage

3 Leadership lessons I learned from running my own business

A Windows Between Worlds: How a dream made the difference

Raytheon CEO's plagiarism is NOT "unintentional"

Leadership and being held to a different standard (career Q&A response)

Can business leaders really say no?

YOUR CAREER

How to be an attractive candidate to an employer

7 Reasons why you experience mid-career crisis and 6 Ways to relieve the itch

5 Things you want to do to achieve excellence this year

5 Lessons in a career transition

3 Lessons I have learned about career paths

Are you running away or running toward a career?

Is your career path based mainly on available jobs?

3 Reasons why we become disappointed with our careers

3 Questions to assess whether you have outgrown your job or career

How do you define career development?

Develop your strengths first: your career will follow

Career "paths" can help - to a point

Look at your career as a service and change the way you see your career

People who poo-poo your career transition decision

INTERVIEWING

What interviewing is NOT

4 Ways to avoid the blab in interviews

Dealing with strange interview questions

Not quite what I had in mind for interview answers

Copyright 2008 by Jane Chin (@), All Rights Reserved. Title Photograph by BSK.