Personal Development
FREEDOM, Commitment and Optimistic Spirit
Think back to a time in your life when you gave everything you had to the accomplishing of a goal and felt absolutely exhausted and satisfied, even exhilarated. Think of the camaraderie between all on your team.
How far back did you have to go? I’ll bet that for a lot of people this brought them back to some type of athletic event as a participant. It did for me. I think back to my time as a football coach at Cal State Fullerton.
A Tribute To The Legacy Of Professor Luther P. Jackson, Jr.,The Most Influential Educator Of My Professional Life
The late Professor Luther P. Jackson, Jr., who tortured me in grad school with stinging criticism of my writing and reporting, was honored earlier this year with an endowed scholarship.
The Black Alumni Network, in reporting that Jackson’s legacy is being honored with the endowment, notes prominently that Jackson was The School’s first black professor.
“Being the first of anything is not easy,” says Reginald Stuart, a former reporter at The New York Times who wrote the article about the endowment.
Indeed, Jackson was a black pionee
What's The One Thing You Know Would Make The Biggest Impact In Your Business?
The first quarter of 2011 is well behind us. We are smack in the middle of Q2. So, how are those goals coming along? What about those New Year's resolutions from way back in January?
Compete Against Depression!
You just delivered a proposal of a life time to the Chamber of commerce. Not one of your competitors had the staff and infrastructure to handle their group business as competently as you.
You receive an email to discover that they went with another advisor but thanks for your interest and hard work.
Advisors On The Move Need Financial Planning More Than Anyone
There’s a real sense in the wirehouses right now that with top-line transition packages trending at above 3 years production at the very high end, this is a chance in a lifetime for every advisor to call a recruiter, take the check, and retire three years early.
If those advisors were their own clients, we’d call that a case of letting short-term emotion -- pure greed -- interfere with long-term rationality.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m a real supporter of every advisor taking his or her talents to a business environment that rewards those talents
