from the Harvard Business Review and Citrix Online: A 12-year-old boy from Kenya was asked to give a TED talk. Although nervous and inexperienced in English, he told his story before a crowd of hundreds. And when he finished, the response was immediate – a full standing ovation. “In a matter of hours, a speaker’s

from Nathalie at mentorless.com: “I regularly receive emails from readers who want to know how to reach powerful people. By powerful people, they mean people who have the power to change their career, because if they could just reach them, then hardest part would be behind (wrong). It’s one thing to get someone’s contact. It’s

” HOW TO GET FROM WHERE YOU ARE TO WHERE YOU WANT TO BE ” by Jack Canfield, Co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® Series, with Janet Switzer. Jack is a well-known American author and motivational speaker. He is co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has more than 250

Interviewed by Lewis Howes from The School of Greatness: If you’ve never seen a Chicken Soup for the Soul book, I don’t know where you’ve been. Did you know that the same original author of that wildly successful series (7 New York Times best-sellers at the same time!) is also one of the experts interviewed

by Art Koff (this article appeared previously on MarketWatch) Many boomers, as well as retirees, looking for work are hitting the pavement with outdated résumés. Of course, you don’t wear out shoe leather anymore. Now you’re sending your resumé through email or applying online — and the resumé that you submit today is substantially different

On the businessinsider.com LinkedIn Influencer Jeff Haden published this post, originally on LinkedIn: Interview questions: Everyone has them. And everyone wishes they had better ones. So I asked smart people from a variety of fields for their favorite interview question and what it tells them about the candidate. See the questions here