Formula One and Improving Your Plan B

The future of the Formula One racing series is uncertain after negotiations between the FIA, the sport’s governing body, and FOTA, the racing teams’ association, broke down over the FIA’s plan to impose a budget cap for next season.
Last Friday, eight of the twelve teams announced plans to leave Formula One and start a competing [...]

Top Ten Impasse-Breaking Strategies

Keeping with the “Top Ten” theme from last week, here are my Top Ten Impasse-Breaking Strategies:
1. Get or share more information
2. [...]

5 Common Interview Questions and How to Answer Them

Marci Alobher of Yahoo’s Working the New Economy blog has a great article up on how to handle 5 of the most difficult interview questions.
Our own Ford R. Myers, author of Get The Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring is one of the featured experts.

Top Ten Information-Gathering Tactics

Effectively and efficiently gathering strategic information is a critical but often underutilized part of the negotiation preparation process. Here are my Top Ten Information-Gathering Tactics:
1. Leave your ego at the door
2. Be sincere
3. [...]

Turning Today’s Adversities into Tomorrow’s Successes

Who doesn’t know a story of someone who came back from terrible adversity to build remarkable success? In America especially a mythos has grown up around such stories—the penniless immigrant makes millions within a few years, the orphan in the street goes on to become a captain of industry. Of course, most people [...]

Only Five Interview Questions

Of all the subjects we cover in career management and job search, the one that seems to cause clients the most anxiety is INTERVIEWING. To ease my clients’ concerns, I often simplify the topic by reducing it to a handful of basic elements.
When you boil it all down, job interviews are made-up of only five [...]

Bidding War is Good News for Seller

Data Domain, a data storage company, is currently the target of an aggressive bidding war between NetApp and EMC. Data Domain is the industry leader in its product niche and both suitors seek to use their larger resources to gain control of this growing new market.
According to The New York Times, NetApp on May [...]