Brown-nosing your boss this holiday season

Published in December 15th, 2010

Posted by admin in Building Alliances, Career IQ, Connecting, Initiative, Visibility, career success

Those of you who understand the skills that I’ve written about should immediately recognize how two of those skills, connecting and visibility, could be used to your advantage this holiday season. Let’s face it, few of us seem to have enough hours in a day to get done what we need to get done, let [...]

A lesson for all of us from Elizabeth Edwards…

Published in December 8th, 2010

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It is with a heavy heart that I find myself back to these pages today. The news of Elizabeth Edwards’ death has special meaning to me, a breast cancer survivor. I call myself a survivor fully aware of the fact that the definition of a cure is five years cancer free, so I’m not out [...]

A corporate brown noser’s profile in courage

Published in February 22nd, 2010

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We buried my brother in law yesterday. Less than two months after a devastating diagnosis of stage IV pancreatic cancer many hearts are aching as they try to make sense of this loss. My heart is one of them. So is my sister’s who now finds herself a widow after 15 years of love and joy with [...]

Corporate Brown Nosers in my classroom

Published in February 4th, 2010

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A brief note today — In a great class last night a number of new students - most of whom work in corporate America, were surprised how much Brown nosing goes on in the business world that is called something else. From networking to politics, our discussions about the presumptions of management work and its changing [...]

Happy Career Success in 2010!

Published in January 6th, 2010

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If you didn’t have a chance to see the USA Today article yesterday about job satisfaction, please visit www.brownnosingonline.com and click on my reading suggestion link in the upper left hand corner. I find it to be a sad state of affairs that people spend so much of their lives doing things that don’t make their [...]

Holiday brown nosing

Published in December 23rd, 2009

Posted by admin in Building Alliances, Building Relationships, Connecting, Self-promotion, Visibility

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Just a quick reminder for you today — The holidays provide an excellent opportunity to make an impression on your boss and those who may have the potential to influence your career. To the extent you can offer assistance and support during these last few busy days of the year, consider doing so. It is [...]

Brown-nosing YOU this holiday season

Published in December 11th, 2009

Posted by admin in Building Alliances, Communication, Initiative

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Over the past few weeks we’ve been making signficant changes to the website to help make your experience richer and more robust. When you have a moment please visit www.brownnosingonline.com and look around. Currently you will find a list of reading recommendations, have the ability to purchase an ebook copy of Brown-nosing 101: A career survival manual [...]