Here we are, starting over again. But this time it’s different. It’s raw, it’s minimalistic, it’s hills and mountains, plush green foliage and tall trees. Simpler inside, so that we can imbibe in the multifaceted outside. Eight and a half acres of timbered Missouri Ozark land, to be specific. Yesterday was our first full day […]
7 People Making a Splash With Their Words of the Year
My Word of the Year My word of the year is Simplify, and I recently blogged about it. Boy, this word has hit the ground running. At nearly every turn, I’m acting it out. This includes cutting back on business interactions or processes that complicate where complexity is unnecessary, or trimming out personal (emotional and/or […]
How a Year of Contemplation Led the Founder + President of Performance CXO, to Select His 3 Words
In response to a One-Word post I wrote HERE, a former client and my friend, Gary Fly, offered up his Three Words as well as the inspired story buttressing those words. Gary is the Founder and President of Performance CXO, a management consulting firm focused on increasing revenue, EBITDA and enterprise value. He wrote the […]
How I Chose My 2025 Word of the Year: Balancing the Nuance of Complexity With the Liberation of Simplicity
In the midst of a warm but windy January morning on the Gulf Coast of Texas, I chose my 2025 word of the year. You see, I’ve avidly blogged about my chosen words since 2013, amassing 13 years of thought work around actionable ‘north star words’, an exercise which began here. For the first eight […]
Executive: “Do This, Not That” When Writing (or Hiring Someone to Write) Your Career Story Resume
Are you feeling the anxiety that accompanies executive job search when writing your career story resume? Are you experiencing the intermittent highs of hope and the plunging moments of despair that naturally can occur when trying to wedge a job search amid an already packed work schedule or recover and rebuild your story on the […]
Making Career Lemonade
Rudyard Kipling famously wrote: “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs … Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.” Most would agree, these words were written for times such as these. We are, as a planet, experiencing trying times, and some days are going to be better […]
10 Reasons NOT to Hire an Executive Resume Writer
Here are 10 reasons not to hire an executive resume writer. 1. You are overwhelmed with requests for interviews for that perfect, dream job. 2. Whenever you interview, the interviewer / recruiter, etc. comments how yours is the best resume they’ve ever seen, hands down. 3. Whenever you send your resume for that perfect job, […]
Why I am not an Amazon business-style resume writing service and never will be
In an age of agility and speed and AI and shortcuts and hacks and outsourcing the hard yards to bots and (perceptions of) scrappiness, I slay the slow-motion world record. Because when it comes to writing C-Suite, Executive, Board of Director and Entrepreneur resumes, I am not an Amazon-business-style resume writer. While scrolling Amazon for […]
The Difference Between Real Executive Resume Writers + the High-Profile Resume Influencers
Here’s the difference between Influencers and Real Executive Resume Writers: Influencer: Suggests that a 45-minute webinar or do-it-yourself download will result in your being able to create a meaningful resume story. Real Resume Writer: Invests weeks, even months in a process that delves into your who, what, where, when, why and how. She becomes entranced […]
Pouring Your Soul Onto the Blank Resume Canvas Is an Artful Journey
Swelling with satisfaction and gratitude at your record of career-fueling metrics, you are now ready to weave that emotion into an articulate executive resume story. However, proficiency in selling ideas, tamping down inefficiencies or building a new marketplace does not always translate well into powerful career storytelling. Your ocean of achievements washes over you with […]
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