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Conversation with Josh Savage, Global Benefits Consultant and Hip-Hop Artist

Published on June 2, 2011 by Marquis in Business, career, career path, Conversations, music industry, my peoples

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In this entry, you’ll be introduced to a young business professional named Josh Savage… Read the rest, a Global Benefits Consultant at a huge multinational firm in Atlanta. So far, he’s done some interesting things in his career, but, in my opinion, the most interesting thing about him is that he’s a hip-hop artist and is 100% committed to that as his future path. If you spend 5 minutes with him, you’ll realize that his personality is not like most other folks in his corporate line of work and, given his sense of style and “swag”, he’s more of a “Pharell Williams”-type

Conversation with Tanisha Drummer, Strategy Professional and Former Management Consultant

Published on March 26, 2011 by Marquis in Business, Business School, career, career-life balance, consulting, Conversations, entrepreneurship, Leaving job for Bschool, mba, my peoples, professional advice, Stanford GSB, strategy, transition

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In this entry, you’ll be introduced to Tanisha Drummer, a Strategy professional and former Management Consultant. Tanisha is a friend of mine from my years at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and has done some really interesting things in her career. Tanisha is a former Management Consultant in Accenture’s Strategy Practice, where she focused on Marketing strategy for 4 years before business school and 1.5 years afterward. She’s been in her current Corporate Strategy role at US Cellular for over a year now and has been having tremendous impact.

I’m tempted to give you more background on her … Read the rest

Conversation with Jullien Gordon, Serial Entrepreneur and “Purpose Finder”

Published on February 5, 2011 by Marquis in Business, Business School, career, career path, Conversations, entrepreneurship, job search resources, mba, my peoples, other sites, professional advice, Stanford GSB

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In this entry, I present a discussion with Jullien Gordon… Read the rest, a serial entrepreneur and “Purpose Finder”, as a part of my “Conversations” interview series. Jullien is a good friend of mine from time at Stanford GSB (he was in the class behind me) and we’ve supported each other over the years in our various ventures. My long-time blog readers will recognize Jullien’s name because I’ve written about him a few times times in the past. I wanted to profile Jullien earlier as a part of the this interview series, but he was busy launching the Career Change Challenge and

Promotion from a career prep resource provider for registered members of this site

Published on October 26, 2010 by Marquis in career, career path, job search resources, my peoples, other sites, recruiting, Stanford GSB, Uncategorized

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During tough economic times like this, I’m sure that everyone could use as much information as possible about how to find the right career path. Please check out the video and text below to find out about a promotion for a really cool career prep resource that has been offered to registered members of this site.

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Graduate school may get you a good job, but it won’t guarantee you your D.R.E.A.M. job. Do you know what it feels like to D.R.E.A.M. awake? Do know how to make meaning and … Read the rest

The Art of Hiring to Build a Team

Published on August 20, 2010 by Marquis in Business, interesting articles, my peoples, organization

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What’s happening, folks. I hope you’re all doing well and ready to start the weekend…I’m counting down the minutes until 5pm as I type this (T-minus 15 minutes and counting). This entry offers up an article that is all about the concept of how to bring in the right people to make up a strong team. The article talks about it in a hiring and HR context, but, given the importance of teams in business and MBA programs, I thought it would be an interesting general topic for my reader community.

The article below was written by a former coworker … Read the rest

The Career Change Challenge – a new career search resource from Jullien Gordon

Published on August 7, 2010 by Marquis in career, interview advice, job search resources, my peoples, other sites, professional advice

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Hey, everyone. My long-time readers know that I’ve recently been trying to pass along job-related resources as I come across them. I’ve come across a new one that was developed my a good friend of mine that I’ve mentioned on this site before, Jullien Gordon. Jullien is one of my peoples from my time at Stanford GSB and, since earning his MBA in 2007, he has created several projects geared toward leading people to finding their life purposes and using them as guidelines for living. He recently launched a new one with a focus on the job search that is… Read the rest

What is your magic bullet? (great article from Jullien Gordon)

Published on June 27, 2010 by Marquis in interesting articles, my peoples, other blogs, other sites

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Remember when I mentioned my encounter with my friends Jullien Gordon and Jeremy Wilson last Sunday? Well, I wanted to post the article below from Jullien’s site right after that, but was delayed because of the “access issues” that I mentioned in my last entry. Now, I’ve finally got things stabilized enough on my end and can share this article with all of you. Trust me when I say that it is a good one.

Jullien posted this article on the ninth anniversary of when he was carjacked at gunpoint during his college years. Something like that changes people forever … Read the rest

The Power of Networking (shout out to Jeremy Wilson and Jullien Gordon)

Published on June 20, 2010 by Marquis in Business, career, my peoples, Networking, other blogs, other sites, professional advice

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Hey, everyone. I know it’s weird to be seeing two entries posted from me in a 24-hour period, but I couldn’t wait to get this one put up here. I’m just getting back home after a DYNAMITE meeting with two of my good friends who are also business/MBA/career bloggers, Jeremy Wilson and Jullien Gordon… Read the rest. I won’t go into much detail about how we ended up meeting (I mention it in the video below), but I think it is worth saying that we met today because it was a testament to the power of networking. The three of us are