The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.

Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.

Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

It remains true that great managers recognize individualities and focus on developing strengths rather than weaknesses. Great leaders, in sharp contrast, recognize what is (or could be) shared in common - a vision, a dream, a mission, whatever - and inspire others to join them in the given enterprise.

Remember, what you focus on expands; results follow focus.

If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all.

As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.