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Lucid Daydreaming: Unlocking True Career Insights
In the frenetic pace of modern life, we often find ourselves racing forward without taking a moment to look inward. When it comes to our...
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taranisprofessionals
Apr 3, 20222 min
Recruiting Success Means Starting Right: Do Your Homework!
Engage in a thorough process of internal discovery before even posting your job opening! Employers know that they need more tools, more...
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taranisprofessionals
Apr 22, 20202 min
Steady as she goes
I'm very, very lucky. The shelter-in-place has not touched anyone I love. I have fulfilling work. It's true I'm separated from my family...
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taranisprofessionals
Apr 15, 20202 min
Your Schedule Is Now Crap - Plant Seeds in it
Have you noticed that everyone is starting to work weirder hours--not you, of course. It depends on your organization, sure. But let's...
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taranisprofessionals
Apr 8, 20202 min
Do More, Stress Less
We're stuck at home: Do more; sweat; shine!
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taranisprofessionals
Oct 25, 20172 min
Lucid Daydreaming: What Have You Already Accomplished?
My Tuesday post encouraged professionals to take time out to daydream. The premise is that more thinking about ideal future and present...
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taranisprofessionals
Oct 24, 20172 min
Daydreaming Repackaged
Seventeen years ago, when I started out as a lawyer, big firms did not give advice to young lawyers. They provided an office and a firm...
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taranisprofessionals
Mar 25, 20172 min
It's not "life", it's a "living system"
Officially, life is "a characteristic distinguishing physical entities having biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining...
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taranisprofessionals
Mar 23, 20173 min
Festina lente: taking appropriate action during the wait for an offer
Octavius Augustus Caesar was the first and "real" Augustus, the first heir of Julius Caesar, and some say the first true emperor of Rome....
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taranisprofessionals
Feb 18, 20173 min
Interviewing: how to talk like a grown up
I've posted before on interviewing, but I'll share a few extra practical tips that I presented at a lecture I gave this week. 1) Keep...
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taranisprofessionals
Jan 10, 20175 min
Zen, Gestalt and law firm culture
Picking a law firm is like picking a mail-order bride, only worse. You start with a healthy number of glossy marketing flyers in your...
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taranisprofessionals
Dec 23, 20164 min
Pardon me while I try to save your life....
An important talent for a highly-functioning lawyer is to know the bounds of one’s expertise. Somewhat ironically, the better we know our...
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taranisprofessionals
Nov 9, 20166 min
Vive la revolucion! - The Professional Plan as Revolutionary Tool for Career Success
Joseph-Marie, Comte de Maistre was an aristocrat, philosopher, and diplomat, and a strident voice in the call to destroy the spirit of...
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taranisprofessionals
Mar 9, 20166 min
The next step on your professional path: build a network
If you think you can make a successful career just by continually improving yourself, think again. You can write beautifully, argue...
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taranisprofessionals
Jan 8, 20152 min
Ruthlessness
I have to admit, when I went to look up "ruthless" in a dictionary, I got variants on this: "without pity or compassion; cruel;...
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taranisprofessionals
Mar 11, 20147 min
No need for "mentors": summon your posse! (and turn the "in posse" to "in e
Here is a quick test of your generational "orientation": When you think of a "posse," does your mind conjure up the image of 20 to 30...
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taranisprofessionals
Dec 11, 20137 min
"Making partner" or things to do while waiting for the dream job or dream practice.
As I sit before my computer monitor writing this short article, the window for my document is minimized so as to maximize my view of my...
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taranisprofessionals
Dec 21, 20124 min
Build your career from the inside out.
"Get a better recruiter." "Get a better 'job.'" "Go in-house." "Take anything." "Take only 'the best.'" If you are an attorney in...
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taranisprofessionals
Aug 12, 201210 min
Bring your career to new heights by engaging in the process of self-discovery and self-disclosure
In a quiet pool near a silent grove, Narcissus fell in love with a reflection of his youthful face, and died. Not a complicated plot....
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taranisprofessionals
Jul 3, 20122 min
You are already there--you just don't know it yet!
Executive Summary: I'm on the move. Look for me at a theatre near you. Soonish. Long version: I've been having TONS of fun by presenting...
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