Entries by First Sun Team

#Leadership : Top Signs Your Colleague Is An Empty Suit…Is your Manager, Employee, or CoWorker an Empty Suit? And How Would you Know If They Were? Here are Some Tell Tale Signs You are Working with an Empty Suit.

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Unfortunately, They Lack Knowledge of What They are Doing in Their Work Role. In the Worst Cases the Empty Suit Can’t Manage to Explain the Goals of the Department. In a weak attempt to do so will say something similar to one or more of the following: There is nothing wrong with dressing well for […]

#Leadership : The Daily Habits of 35 People at the Top of Their Game…Nearly 3 Dozen Successful Leaders Share the Rituals they Say Help them Succeed in Business & Life.

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When it Comes to Achieving Success, Actions Speak Louder than Words, Connections or Opportunities. Think about the importance of your daily habits, for example. Do you run five miles every morning because you value being fit and healthy? Or is it your regular routine to watch three hours of television every night because you feel […]

#Strategy : 5 Ways To Use Life’s Challenges To Make You Better, Not Bitter…The “My-Life-Fell-Apart-at-Age-26 Club” is a Group that No One Wants to Join, but When We Do, we’re Always Eager to Meet the Other Members & Hear Their Stories.

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That Email was from Courtney Clark, and while our Stories Weren’t Quite the Same—I was Widowed at age 26 & She was Diagnosed with Cancer—we could relate to one another. But Clark’s story didn’t end after she beat Melanoma. Since then, she’s had two more recurrences of cancer. And as if that wasn’t enough to deal with, she […]

#Leadership : 29 Famous People who Failed Before they Succeeded…Consider This: Some of the World’s Most Successful People have Failed — Sometimes More than Once.

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Rejection Can Feel Genuinely Devastating. But before you retreat into your tear-stained hovel to plot a new, anonymous life as a subsistence farmer in rural Australia (not that there’s anything wrong with that!), Consider This: Some of the World’s Most Successful People have Failed — Sometimes More than Once. Instant success isn’t the only kind […]

Your #Career : 20 Words you Should Never Put On your #Résumé …Avoiding Overused Terms can Help #Job Seekers Convey their Message & Stand Out From the Crowd.

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While Any Large Companies Use Automated Résumé Screener Software to Cut Down the Initial Pool of Job Applicants, Loading your Résumé with Meaningless Buzzwords is Not theSsmartest Way to Get Noticed.  Get ready to start hitting the ‘delete’ button. “Nearly everyone is guilty of using buzzwords from time to time, but professionals are evaluated increasingly on […]

#Leadership : How To Push Back (And Stop Being So Nice!)… Too Much Niceness can Become a Vice. Rocking the Boat Can Be Risky, But No Less than Being Too Agreeable.

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I like Nice People. Who Doesn’t, Right? But, Like Every Virtue, Too Much Niceness can Become a Vice. Of course, Being Agreeable, Affable & Amenable is Often a Great Thing, helping you to Build Trusting & Rewarding Relationships. Likewise, no-one likes someone who is forever forcing their opinion, constantly argumentative and overly demanding. However, if […]

#Strategy : 24 Tips That Will Make you More Powerful…Power is “The Measure of the Degree of Control you have Over Circumstances in your Life & the Actions of the People Around You.”

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“It is a Skill That is Developed by a Deep Understanding of Human Mature, of What Truly Motivates People, & of the Manipulations Necessary for Advancement & Protection.” – Robert Greene, author of “The 48 Laws of Power,” To acquire power, it’s important to first understand it. Robert Greene, author of “The 48 Laws of Power,” has […]

#Strategy : We’re About to Find Out Just How Bad Corporate America’s last 3 Months Really Were … Earnings Season is Upon us, & It is Not Expected to be Pretty. To Get You Ready for the Season, Here are 6 Things to Look out For.

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After the closing bell on Wednesday, aluminum giant Alcoa will report second-quarter earnings, unofficially kicking off reporting season. In the first quarter, S&P 500 earnings grew 1.9% and revenues fell 3.2% year-over-year, according to RBC Capital Markets’ scorecard. Arko Datta/Reuters And so the earnings recession that some analysts predicted failed to materialize. But that doesn’t mean the […]

#Leadership : How To Lead When You Aren’t The #Leader … Leadership is an Attitude, Not a Title. Here are 7 Leadership Characteristics that you Can Adopt Even If you Just Joined the #Workforce or are an Individual Contributor.

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True Leadership is Not about Rank or Job Titles. It’s an Attitude. It’s Way of Doing What You Do. Having a perspective that extends way beyond the list of tasks on your daily do-list will help you demonstrate your leadership even if you don’t have the title. I was recently coaching a group of young […]