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Putting Powerful Tools To Work | Information Engineering and Management-IEM — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:35:38 +0000

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Comment on How to conduct a reverse interview – a guaranteed method to find a job by Putting Powerful Tools To Work | Information Engineering and Management-IEM

Putting Powerful Tools To Work | Information Engineering and Management-IEM — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:27:38 +0000

[...] got this email the other day: “Something small on reverse interview: I talked to my boss and asked him how he got to where he is today. I used the reverse interview [...]

Comment on Reading List for the Entrepreneur of Tomorrow by Does an MBA pay? | Dale Callahan

Does an MBA pay? | Dale Callahan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:39:38 +0000

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Comment on How to conduct a reverse interview – a guaranteed method to find a job by Putting Powerful Tools To Work | Dale Callahan

Putting Powerful Tools To Work | Dale Callahan — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:50:37 +0000

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Comment on The Reverse Interview Explained by Saying GoodBye to Harvey Pekar: Remembering an Entrepreneur | Information Engineering and Management

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:15:55 +0000

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Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:08:34 +0000

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Comment on USA World Cup: Building a Business Model Like a Soccer Game by Dale

Dale — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:09:40 +0000

Good point. However, on the business side you can be second place and still do very well;)

Comment on USA World Cup: Building a Business Model Like a Soccer Game by Suman

Suman — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:59:27 +0000

On the other side, think about this: what if giving your best may not be enough? I watched the game. USA gave their best, but they were always trying to come from behind… At it caught up to them.

My suggestion here is to stay ahead by giving your best. That is how you come out to be a winner… One of my favorite couch said “There is no moral victory”…

Comment on If I take all the risk, I want all the reward. by Dale

Dale — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:48:09 +0000

Kyle,

simply put – we settle. All too often we wonder through life taking what looks like the safe path. You know – that advice we have heard so often — “go to school, get good grades, get a good job with a good company, etc ”

The problem is this formula never considers what we love to do! Instead, we try to fit what we are passionate about into a job description. Job descriptions are finite – passions are infinite. So while this approach of fitting in might actually work for a few – way too many have decided to bury their passions.

But it gets worse. Many of us take a job just because it is there when we are looking. Then we become defined by it. Case in point – when I graduated engineering school, I got a job in telecommunications based on a chance meeting at my mailbox. I really never thought about it. It was a “good company.” Years later, without much thought or planning by me, I was defined as a telecommunications expert. And years after that – I still am. But you know what? I could really care less about telecommunications! Sure it is interesting technology – but you will never catch me reading about it in my spare time. You will never catch me exploring some telecommunications topic on a Google search just for enjoyment. In other words – it is not a passion. It never really hit me until one day when I found myself CEO of a wireless telecom company. I woke up and thought I had lost my mind. Why did I agree to do that job? I just floated along into without much thought!

So what did I do all those years as a telecom expert? I buried my passion. I had a job which was respected by others. I made good money and had a neat sounding titles. Who cares? Certainly not me.

I see this daily now when I speak and teach. You might think it is just you – but I see that same blank stare of an unfulfilled work life from software developers to CEOs. Instead of driving our careers and our source of income – we just float along the path like a bottle in the sea waiting to find out who will discover us next on some foreign shore.

The only alternative! Take back the reigns.

Comment on If I take all the risk, I want all the reward. by kyle

kyle — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:49:41 +0000

Dale, can you explain more on the topic of people burying their passions?
“….. create a passion and a drive to excite you today ….. but most people have buried it…..”