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When One Career Door Closes, Another Career Door Opens This career-building article looks at how more learning expands personal development, allows people with little business background to gain senior positions, and permits entrepreneurial choices at almost any age. Take a Close Look: Then Work to Change Wrong Views and Actions You can change the world. A good place to begin is by questioning the "official" views and getting your hands dirty to determine what the real causes of problems are. Stretch Beyond What You Can Hope to Succed at to Learn the Most Mentors are in a better position to advise you on what challenges to take than you are. Listen and act! Seven Breakthrough Steps to Business Success Many people want to find their purpose and live that purpose through a business career. Many find that's easier said than done. This article proposes seven steps that lead to breakthrough performance in achieving career success through one's life purpose. Project Managers: Set Reporting Dates to Focus Your Efforts and Provide a Sense of Urgency Many difficult tasks end up being stuck in the starting gate because leaders don't discipline the efforts with required reports and outcomes. This article provides an example of how this tendency can be overcome. Personal Irresistible Force Management Lessons Irresistible force management helps your personal life by buffering you from severe shifts in factors outside your control. Make the Rules! -- Don't Just Do What Everyone Else Does Success requires studying what works for the most extraordinary performers. How can you learn from and improve on what the best do? Look Sharp to Stay Sharp: A Masterful Professor Studies Online to Advance His Skills How can a successful teacher improve? Try becoming a student again to add new dimensions of knowledge and taste a different teaching course. Career advances cannot be far behind. Lifelong Learning Brings Personal Progress by Degrees Many people stop their educations while young while others keep learning. This article describes how one lifelong learning student added satisfaction and built on an already successful career by adding a degree he had long put off. Learning Beyond the Horizon Curious people used to have to travel to find what's new. If they traveled to a remote locale, that made it difficult to find out about other new trends and practices. Bob Kudyba solved both problems by joining the land mine removal work of the United Nations to do good and by studying online to improve his skills in this demanding profession. Learn While on the Job: A High School Graduate Climbs into Top Management and Earns an MBA Do you think that you don't have enough education to succeed in business? You may be selling yourself short. If you focus on learning what you need to succeed, your education may launch your career ahead of those with more academic credentials. Learn and Love Your Work Do you love your work? If you don't, you should consider how gaining more skill and exploring other interests can help you to get a job that you would love. Launching an Academic Career by Enjoying More Academic Freedom through Online Learning Many people would like to enjoy the prestige and comfortable life of a professor. Many find the thought of spending many years laboring under academic advisors with whom they do not agree to be uncomfortable. Flexible online study can open the door to such fine careers. Keep Life in Balance: A Devoted Father Juggles His Way Up Mount Everest A father finds a way to improve his relationship with his son while adding the education he needs to advance his career by using a flexible online MBA program. Jack, Be Nimble! -- What Have You Learned Today? Who Have You Helped Today? For the best career, you need to look past the rules that others suggest you follow or impose on you . . . and be nimble in your thinking. This article explores a case history of someone who has designed a unique career path in the hospitality industry. It's Never to Late to Add a Degree That Boosts Your Career If you didn't graduate from college at 22, is the potential benefit of a degree mostly gone? No! Your self-esteem and reputation will get large boosts whenever you finish your degree, whether undergraduate or graduate. This article shares a case history of why the degree becomes valuable whenever you earn it. Insist on the Best for Your Career Carefully plan your career, set high goals, and then pick the education to give you a huge head start. Fulfill Your Potential To Fly Higher in Your Career This article explores how to take ambitious career dreams and turn those dreams into reality. Escaping from Evening Television Watching Brings a Businessman Many Rewards Businessman Bill Kempen felt like he was wasting his time watching television. He stopped television watching and started earning an online MBA with the time he freed up. The result was to improve his business, his retirement income, and his quality of life. Do Your Unconscious Habits Help or Hurt Your Profitability? It's what we don't think about that often causes the most problems. This article looks at how organizations of all kinds and sizes can check themselves to find where bad habits need to be replaced with better ones. Check Out the Top First to See How to Get There A first job is critical to completing your education. Try to get one where you can meet the top people in your field. You'll see what they are missing and can plan a better career path as a result. Building a Foundation for an Enhanced Artistic Vision from a Distance This article explains how artists can use online learning to inexpensively build a new perspective for their artistic visions and increase their professional choices. Build a Better Future by Becoming More Flexible Learn how to plan and prepare for the unexpected in the economy and the job market and more opportunities for your business career will become available to you. This article explains how. Apply New Thinking Habits in Choosing a Career This article shows better ways to choose a career by looking at how you can use factors outside your control too prosper. A Teacher and Her Students Gain Practical Advantages After She Returns to Being a Student Teachers want to become more effective and motivated. This article describes how a teacher used earning an MBA to accomplish both objectives. A Physician Starts Life Mastery Through Earning an Online MBA Many people learn the advanced material before mastering the basics. How can they go back and fill in those practical gaps? This article describes how online education can help. A Masterful Student Publishes His Work and Gains Worldwide Influence It's not enough to know what you are doing: Someone must notice you before you can have influence. This paper describes how an experienced executive went back to school to create a book that launched him and his organization into worldwide prominence. A Lifelong Learner Lightens His and Others' Loads Learning how to learn can lighten your load . . . and then you can help others do the same. A Hands-On Approach to Solving Problems Helps a Distance Learner Spring into Engineering Management Many people who do technical work would like to become managers of such technical work. This article looks at how one person made the shift.

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