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Can you manage your way through a career in industry?

"Scientists coming from academia will rapidly separate themselves into two camps: those who take the advice of their mentors and proceed cautiously, and those who use their internal motivation, creativity, and a lot of hours to tear up the track."

In academia, he says, you are rewarded by the development of the knowledge base. The difference in industry is that you are paid for the judgment.

Despite a smattering of specialized coursework, company and university officials admit that the traditional science degree isn't focused on the skills that employers really look for.

"All it will take are a few responses that sound phony or overprepared, and
wham! You are off the A list."

"Despite 2002's rough economy and the resulting loss of value in biotechnology companies, the pressures to develop products and shareholder value have continued to keep good people in demand."

Whether you bill your work or simply want to know where to squeeze in more job-search networking hours, keeping a journal can help you discover your own personal "time wasters."

Most of us have no idea how those on the receiving end make their decisions about our believability.

The HR department "has to determine whether or not there is a personal chemistry fit between you and the company."

"Writing something that is powerful and yet short is the single most difficult kind of business writing."

Things went along OK for a time until he started showing me some of those ink-blot pictures and doing word associations. "Too weird," I thought.

"Attracting luck and coincidence to your side could make the difference between a painless, rewarding 3-month project and a year-long (or more) marathon!"

"You don't have to like or admire your boss, nor do you have to hate him. You do have to manage him, however, so that he becomes your resource for achievement, accomplishment, and personal success." –Peter Drucker

"The most successful people realize that counting on perfection at all times is impractical." --Michael Zigmond

Perhaps the best advice is that because there's nothing you can do about it anyway, you might as well be yourself. There's something liberating about the idea that you don't really have to perform, to pretend to be something you're not.

“Anyone can think of a hundred reasons why something will fail. I want that rare individual who can think of the creative one way in which it will succeed,” --Leo Kim

Often as not, resilience ends up being the difference between success and failure.