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• 5 Ways to Take Charge of Your Career Stability

  My friend and radio show co-host Lindsey Pollak has a brand new blog over at Fast Company . Her first, post, 5 Ways to Take More Control of Your Career , comes at a perfect time as we all sit in shock over the demise of long-established, powerful financial Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Creativity & Innovation, Business, Ownership & Initiative, Personal Marketing, Professionalism, Troubleshooting

• Career Lessons from Bill Gates

  So Bill Gates is preparing to retire as CEO of Microsoft . Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen founded Microsoft on April 4, 1975, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to make and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, an early computer that was sold Read More... Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Creativity & Innovation, Current Affairs, Entrepreneurship, Management, Ownership & Initiative, Technology

• Want to Do Something Better? Ask.

  When you get to a certain point in your career, the tendency is to think you’re supposed to be an expert in everything pertaining to your field. After all, you have years of experience under your belt, you keep up on new developments well enough, and Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Creativity & Innovation, Mentoring, Networking, Ownership & Initiative, Personal Development

• How is Your Career like a Plastic Insect?

  You know those creepy-crawly plastic insects kids play with around Halloween time? Back in the day, my friends and I would throw a bunch of them against the wall and then see which one would stick. When I saw these in the store last week, they got me Read More... Posted Monday, November 05, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Creativity & Innovation, Ownership & Initiative, Personal Development, Project Management, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• Neutralizing the Naysayers

  Marketing blogger extraordinaire Seth Godin has a great post on the various ways people defend the status quo, and consequently quell innovation in their organizations. Seth actually heard or read all of these quotes about actual good ideas. "That will Read More... Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Creativity & Innovation, Ownership & Initiative, Productivity Attachment(s): http://www.whatagreatidea.com/art/wheel.gif

• Innovation 101

  I’m reading a great book by Tom Kelley called The Ten Faces of Innovation . Kelley says that a lot of successful innovators look closely at things that have been done a certain way for a long time, and find a way to improve on them. He talks about some Read More... Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Creativity & Innovation, Ownership & Initiative