Six-Figure Learnings
Since founding ExecuNet in 1988, Dave Opton has used his 40+ years of experience in Human Resources to develop the premier private business and career network for senior-level executives with salaries above $150,000.
Dave has worked with executive recruiters and six-figure leaders across all industries during his 20+ years as CEO and as a result, has learned about the most effective job search and career development strategies.
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Another Recipe for Lemonade
Most of us go to industry conferences all the time. If the ones you attend are anything like most that I have been to, they usually have a keynote speaker to kind of kick things off and get people energized. Also, and if you are anything like me, you have heard really good ones and some “not so good.” Like everyone else, it is hard for me to get “energized” and in a positive frame of mind |
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Building Better Boards
Any of us who have had anything other than a flat EKG have known for many years that a good many of the ethical failings that we see on the business pages with appalling frequency can and often are laid at the feet of the CEO. And why not, for if nothing else, a CEO is looked upon and expected to be the moral compass of the enterprise. So, when that turns out not to be the case, generally we " |
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Letting the World Happen to You
It is really very hard these days to take anything positive from the challenges faced by millions of Americans trying to work their way out of a recession that has "ended" but where the jobs engine is not yet operating on all eight to say the least. And as if it were not bad enough as we read the newspapers, magazines, blogs, and/or see and hear about it all on TV 24/7 it feels like 99% of what |
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So Many Questions - So Few Answers
While there are literally dozens of issues where job changers look for answers such as on: resumes (functional vs. chronological), interviewing (what are the best ways to deal with questions that feel like they have no good answers), networking (how do you build one, keep it, expand it?), salary negotiation (when asked about compensation, what's the right answer?), age discrimination (how do you |
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What We Don't Learn in Kindergarten
Want a sure bet? Here you go: What is the probability of yours truly actually making an effort to read an article on the website for the EE Times?Actuarially impossible, right? I mean we are talking here about someone whose aptitude for things mechanical, much less electronic, is something slightly to the left of absolute zero. Indeed, I have been known to be found at the desk of our company’s |
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Enhance Assets or Reduce Liabilities?
We once asked a banker and CEO about his decision to lend to a start-up technology company that later became a big success. The banker took out a sheet of paper and wrote two words: assets and liabilities.This is the opening paragraph in a post contributed by Larry Stybel and Maryanne Peabody to the MITSloan Management Review.Larry and Maryanne are cofounders of Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire and I |
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Nobody Asked You To Move Yet
I have no idea how many blogs there are, and if you google it, you get a pretty big range of answers and no agreement. Let's just say that it is well into the 70 million plus range and there are those who say the number doubles every six months. Maybe they ought to put up another clock in Times Square to count how many are created every minute? There's probably room right under the one that |
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People-Challenge-Balance-Worth
When you talk to anyone trying to make a career change these days it doesn't take long before you realize that while there are lots of the questions being asked, the answers vary all over the lot.To many of us this comes as a very frustrating and unhappy surprise. This is especially true for those seeking executive level jobs since most come from positions of executive leadership and are very |
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Storytelling
When it comes to the world of career management these days, online or off, as we all know, the buzz word of the moment is "branding." Translation: If I am looking to make a career change in this economy (either because I want to or have to) how do I make myself stand out from the rest of the tens of thousands who are trying to do the same thing?It's a question that has been around for as long as |
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Stand By Me
The last time I checked there were only 21,185,836 views of this video which should give you some idea of how "tuned in" I am! The video is part of a series put together by Playing for Change and if you are one of the 21 million plus mentioned above, of course, you already know that.But for those, like me, for whom it was a recent "discovery" then hopefully you'll enjoy it as much as I did. And |
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Irrevocable Mistakes at Work
By now, whether you are a Sports Center addict or not, you have seen the call by umpire Jim Joyce that cost Detroit Tiger pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game with only one out to go. Talk about a bummer both ways, this was definitely a classic.On the other hand, once you get past the emotion you feel for both men, if you followed what happened after the call and the next day, you also had a |
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Freedom Isn't Free
Maybe it's my age, maybe it's the silent list of those killed in action at the end of the News Hour or maybe it's the impact of having just finished watching all ten episodes of The Pacific on HBO or some combination of the foregoing plus the fact that it is Memorial Day weekend that prompts this post. Who knows?When I say my age, I am of the generation that was born just before WWII, so while I |
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That Time of Year
I live in a town just outside of Providence, RI. Of course, now that I think about and given the size of RI, I guess almost any town in RI is "just outside of Providence.Be that as it may, I am happy to report that despite its size, Providence still has a daily newspaper; actually a pretty good one by my "lay person" standards which are pretty much made up of a criteria that includes large print |