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Build a Brand – Not Just a Career

Women on Business

A book that readers of Advertising Age recently selected as “the best book they’ve ever read on marketing.” So if you want to have a successful career, don’t focus all your efforts on yourself. Don’t just build a career. I studied marketing at Northwestern. Life is like that. Think about your brand.

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How To Survive In A High Performance Workplace.

Rich Gee Group

In addition, if you are working at a startup or within a certain industry (PR, Advertising, Tech, etc.), Here are some tips to help you understand, cope, and succeed in your career: Because of the economy and marketplace, many seemingly normal environments are slowly turning into ‘high-performance’ workplaces (HPW).

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Advice: Manage Well by Leading Better

N2Growth Blog

Management is your day job; leadership is your career. Additionally successful managers-leaders are those follow a suggestion made by advertising legend, David Ogilvy. While it falls to the leader to think ahead and in doing so she will advance her career, too much focus on personal gain is not productive. Bye-bye career!

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2024 Compilation

Leading Blog

2 Simple Writing Momentum Hacks by @wallybock How Failure Feeds Creativity Being right all the time is killing creativity. by @JenniferVMiller Never Give Up Hope: The Detroit Lions Community from @JohnBaldoni See more on Twitter. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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What do you want to be known for?

Lead Change Blog

Tom Hall and his partners grew Ensslin and Hall Advertising into one of the top regional advertising agencies in less than a decade. That’s great advice for marketing and advertising, but it’s great life and career advice, too. . What do you want to be known for?

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Pez Outlaw

Joseph Lalonde

There are tactics that help you get ahead, accelerate your career, or grow your salary. Make sure you’re advertising: The Pezident, Scott McWhinnie, was upset over how much Glew made off of Pez dispensers from foreign countries. However, Pez USA failed to do any advertising. One organization advertised.

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Avoid Endless Interning and Get Paid to Write

Women on Business

Aside from toiling away in obscurity for the next twenty years writing the next great American novel while apologizing to your parents for throwing their money down the toilet on your education, communications graduates typically work in fields such as journalism, public relations, and advertising. Advertising. Journalism.