Angela Maiers has been someone that I’ve looked up to for a long time now.  She’s one of those people that is so passionate about what she’s doing, you can’t help but get excited when you hear her talk. Tomorrow (Monday) I’ll be speaking with her to the students at the University of Northern Iowa [...]

I’ve been doing a handful of speaking events lately.  The last few I spoke at, I was the youngest person in the room.  And at the end of the month, I’ll be giving a presentation to 1000+ people in our company.  For presentations like these, our company rarely asks people under the age of 30 [...]

Last week my friend Jaclyn wrote a tweet that said:  Is it possible for ambitious people to be comfortable?  That short sentence really got me thinking… Do ambitious people become satisfied?  And if they do, how does that affect their work habit? Do things ever slow down? At this point, I feel like most of [...]

(This post was written for a contest on Talent Buzz.  Please click here to help increase the post’s rank. ) 80% of jobs are gotten through networking.  Unless you plan on staying in your city forever… you should be making friends online. And that doesn’t mean creating a Facebook profile. Traditional social networks (Facebook/LinkedIn/MySpace) are [...]