EdWARD Lawrence Career and Life coach

Regardless of how well coworkers typically get along, disagreements are certain to happen occasionally. Even a seemingly trivial...

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​ ​I asked my friend the poker expert what separates the poker pros from the rest of us. He recited four characteristics that enable the...

The Old Rules No Longer Work My friend John, a professional poker player and my poker mentor, once asked me, “If you ever did pay $10K to...

Brigette Hyacinth (Author: The Future of Leadership: Rise of Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence) recently posted on...

In part one of the Interviewing Success series, you learned: Everyone is hired as a problem-solver. In part two, you learned the first...

Interview Success: Will You Want to Keep Doing the Job? In part one of the Interviewing Success series you learned: Everyone is hired as...

In the first part of this interviewing success series you learned: Everyone is hired as a problem-solver. They only care about your skill...

You were perfect for that job. You had all the skills they listed in the ad. When they asked that softball “tell me about yourself”...

This story is based on a real incident. The client worked with me on the story and approved it. Names have been changed to preserve...

The economy seems to be doing great. You've seen the official unemployment statistics. We keep hearing about a "skills gap." Yet, so many...

Recently, someone asked me how I became so good at networking. My reaction was one of surprise. Me? Expert networker? (How did that...

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I once asked some fiends to help me move from an apartment to a new home. My good friend Steve gladly helped out, saying, "Friends help...

My speech at the ICT May 2017 conference was well-received; so I reorganized and edited it for a newspaper opinion piece, which the...

Speech I delivered at the May 2017 ICT event. Here is a link to the ten-minute video: https://youtu.be/BkAzQfIufsM My name is Ed. I am...

Ever look in your neighbor's garage? Is it a single, double, or three-car garage? How many cars are in the garage? Odds are, there are...

What is memory? Is it a recording? Is memory accurate? The evidence suggests memory is neither a recording nor accurate. In fact, there's...

How to Build a Company in Fifty Steps A summary of an article at https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/252811 Be inspired. Have a passion....

This is the 2014 New York Times article that featured my first Institute for Career Transitions (ICT) client. This article highlights how...