Author Archives: Donald Mitchell



A Hedge-Fund Manager Goes Back To School To Gain Insights And His Results Zoom To Lead The World

Posted by Donald Mitchell on Jan 20th, 2012 • 

This article explains ways to use problems as foundations for success. A five-step process to gain huge career advantages through applied learning is described and illustrated by lessons from a top hedge-fund manager.

Personal Irresistible Force Management Lessons

Posted by Donald Mitchell on Jan 15th, 2012 • 

Irresistible force management helps your personal life by buffering you from severe shifts in factors outside your control.

Develop a Taste for Doing What It Takes to Be a Business Success

Posted by Donald Mitchell on Jan 6th, 2012 • 

Television ads often try to make business travel look more appealing. Most of us remember and relate to the "before" images in those ads of tired travelers dealing with many challenges while far away from home and loved ones. Careers are more likely than ever to include global travel and lots of moves that uproot families. How can someone engage in a career today and find it to be joyful?

Who Can Show Me How?

Posted by Donald Mitchell on Dec 29th, 2011 • 

Every entrepreneur and business leader can be tripped up by what they don't know. Even those who are open to finding problems and getting help may not locate the right resources to help them. An expert business coach with solid knowledge and experience in making business breakthroughs can help lift business performance to unanticipated heights by helping to fill in such knowledge gaps.

Expressing Body English Leads to an Impressive Business Career Communicating in English

Posted by Donald Mitchell on Dec 21st, 2011 • 

This article provides career planning advice to help readers learn from their experiences and the experiences of those around them. The article includes six important principles and an example that applies the principles.

Step Up to a More Successful IT Project Management Career in Business

Posted by Donald Mitchell on Dec 7th, 2011 • 

IT project managers are often overworked and under appreciated. Seldom do they receive the coaching and encouragement they need to improve in their skills and to advance to the next level of management. This article looks at how world-class tennis players develop to draw out lessons for what IT project managers need to do differently to expand their careers in the most desirable ways.

Go to School on What You Don't Know

Posted by Donald Mitchell on Nov 30th, 2011 • 

With practical knowledge about how to accomplish important tasks, success quickly follows. However, those with only practical experience often lack understanding of "why" things work. Those with only academic understanding often lack the ability to apply what they know. This article examines how you can continually gain academic and practical understanding to accomplish much more.

Lessons On Life, Leadership, And Quality Amid A Mortgage-Banking Disaster

Posted by Donald Mitchell on Nov 24th, 2011 • 

This article looks at how the failures of the mortgaging banking industry led to a collapse of house prices and then explains the lessons that people can draw from these experiences to be better leaders, live as more responsible people, and to operate in higher quality ways.

Entrepreneurship 101: Create Marketing Knowledge About Local Conditions And Opportunities

Posted by Donald Mitchell on Nov 17th, 2011 • 

Globalization creates an unprecedented opportunity to create new international brands that have authentic connections to and imagery from the world's many emerging nations. To succeed with that opportunity requires information pioneers to create knowledge about marketing opportunities that is normally only seen in the most developed nations.

Be a Process Developer and Improver: From Resolving Global Disputes to Avoiding Customer Problems

Posted by Donald Mitchell on Oct 28th, 2011 • 

Business careers often are chosen out of a desire to create a certain result. With more knowledge, people should become aware of other roles that permit accomplishing even more of those desired results. This article suggests ways to make that transition.

Enjoy Accomplishing Bigger and Better Things in Business

Posted by Donald Mitchell on Oct 25th, 2011 • 

Many people are satisfied with what they know and can do now in business. Regardless of what they have accomplished, they could do a great deal more, have fun gaining competitive and achievement, and have more self-respect by continually aiming to accomplish bigger and better things.