Entries by First Sun Team

Strategy:Former FBI hostage Negotiation Trainer Explains How to Get People to Do What you Want…The More they Open Up to you, the More Invested they’ll be in Hearing What you Have to Say

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Mark Goulston spent two years role-playing for a living.  He’d pretend to be a suicidal policeman, holding a gun to his neck, threatening to take his own life. Mark Goulston, a former FBI hostage negotiation trainer, role playing. His job was to challenge his audience — a room full of FBI agents and police officers — to talk […]

Strategy:5 Ways To Make Failure Your Best Competitive Advantage…It’s Important for Employees to Know that Failure is OK. How is your Organization Turning Failure into something Positive?

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A few weeks ago I wrote about Why Failure Is The Best Competitive Advantage. We have long been taught to avoid and run from failure but a big part of the future of work is embracing failure because ultimately this is what leads to innovation. The benefits of doing so: increases innovation, improves engagement, removes inefficiencies, […]

Leadership:12 Things Truly Confident People Do Differently…Whether you Think you Can, or you Think you Can’t—you’re Right. Henry Ford

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Confidence takes many forms, from the arrogance of Floyd Mayweather to the quiet self-assurance of Jane Goodall. True confidence—as opposed to the false confidence people project to mask their insecurities—has a look all its own. When it comes to confidence, one thing is certain: truly confident people always have the upper hand over the doubtful […]

Your Career: Here’s What the Modern Résumé Should Look Like…How Can you Get Yourself Noticed? Beyond the Content, Presentation is also Critical

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Along with glowing references, a solid resumé is a must-have for any job applicant. But even those with great credentials need to package those achievements the right way to catch a hiring manager’s eyes. How can you get yourself noticed? Having the right keywords on the page — words like “problem solving,” “leadership” and “team […]

Strategy: How to Work 80 Hours a Week & Still Have a Life…Logging 80 Hours a Week is Not Uncommon, & that Number can Hit the Triple Digits During Especially Busy Weeks

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Wall Street executives, entrepreneurs, and consultants are known for working crazy long hours.  Logging 80 hours a week is not uncommon for them, and that number can hit the triple digits during especially busy weeks. Turns out you CAN work crazy hours and still have a life. But some have figured out how to have […]

Strategy:How To Stop Counter-Productive Habits In 4 Seconds…We can Learn to Use the Space Between What we Feel & Do to Make Smarter Decisions

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Can you improve your relationships, increase your ability to focus and shut down counter-productive habits in just four seconds? In his new book, Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want, Peter Bregman argues that the key to success in our fast-moving world is to pause […]

Your Career: 20 meaningful jobs that pay really well… A New Report from Payscale, There are Plenty of Jobs that Offer Both a Fat Paycheck & Satisfying Work

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It seems like there are only two options when it comes to choosing a career: We can either pursue a meaningful job and make next to nothing, or we can pull in a pretty penny working insanely long hours in an uninspiring, high-pressure role.  Turns out there’s a third option. Veterinarians typically find their work […]

Leadership: What Every New Manager Should being Doing for their First 3 Months on the Job…Even if you Think you Know What you’re Going to Do, you’ll Learn so Much & There’s isn’t Any Other Point in the Job Where You can Do That

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If you’ve taken over a new team at work, or started a new management job, you may feel the temptation to hit the ground running and dive right in to make changes. Sallie Krawcheck, the former president of the Global Wealth & Investment Management division of Bank of America, speaks during the Reuters Wealth Management […]

Your Career: The Top 50 Dream Employers of Students Studying Math, Science, or Health…There’s a Common Thread among Undergraduates Studying Natural Science, Math, & Health: They all Tend To Have the Long-Term Career Goal of being Dedicated to a Cause

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There’s a common thread among undergraduates studying natural science, math, and health: They all tend to have the long-term career goal of being dedicated to a cause, says Melissa Bailey, an executive at Universum, a global research and advisory firm. A new report from Universum supports her observation. The research firm recently asked 22,976 of […]