• Start networking right away (Even if you hate it)
  
  
• Working with Executive Search Firms
  
  
• How to work with executive recruiters, article from The Ladders. (PDF article)
  
  Link to the Ladders website
  
  
• You always have a job (Even if you're unemployed)
  
  
• 5 keys to creating a resume they'll remember
  
  
• 4 steps for effective online networking
  
  
• The crucial interview question that won't be asked out loud
  
  
• 10 new rules for today's job hunt
  
  
• Take care of your references
  
  
• Who should be in your network?, from Forbes
  
  
• How to beat the stress interview
  
  
• The Linkedin Profile:The Homepage of Your Career
  
  
• Friends and Family in Career Doldrums? Five Tips That Will Help
  
  
• This is why you didn't get the job
  
  
• Don't let your job search depress you
  
  
• How to network with executive search firms
  
  
• Why you still haven't gotten a job
  
  
• What your resume is up against
  
  
• Join my network
  
  
• 5 questions great job candidates ask 
  
  
• Connections with integrity 
  
  
• 5 networking tips you haven't heard 
  
  
• Why are Manholes Round? The 10 Toughest Interview Questions
  
  
• 10 Secrets to Getting Yourself Headhunted
  
  
• Never Say No to Networking
  
  
• Tell the Truth with the "Weakness" Interview Question
  
  
• 7 Things to Consider Before Accepting a Job Offer
  
  
• First Impressions : 6 Mistakes You Shouldn't Put in Your Cover Letter
  
  
• 5 Rules to Keeping Your Cover Letter Simple and Effective 
  
  
• Example Cover Letter Format that gets Your Resume Read
  
  
• How NOT to Contact Recruiters on Linkedin
  
  
• How to Craft a Compelling LinkedIn Profile
  
  
• 10 Networking Conversation Starters You'll Actually Use
  
  
• How to Ace the 50 Most Common Interview Questions
  
  
• Is It Time to Quit Your Job?
  
  
• 10 Things You Must Know About a Company Before Interview
  
  
• 8 Things You Must Change About Your Interview Approach in 2013
  
  
• Five Interview Questions That Reveal the Most about Job Candidates
  
  
• Getting Fired is A State of Mind
  
  
  

• Why I hire people who fail
  
  
• 10 predictions for 2012: The top trends in talent management and recruiting
  
  
• Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit--And You Should Too
  
  
• Show me the money-The top 10 revenue impacts of a great hiring process
  
  
• Social Tools Can Improve Employee Onboarding
  
  
  

• What it takes to be great
  
  
• Retaining Key Employees in Times of Change August 2010 article from McKinsey Quarterly
  
  
• One Way to Lose Employees : Train Them
  
  
• Top ten reasons why large companies fail to keep their best talent
  
  
• The paradox of high potentials
  
  
• How to Spot Innovative Hires
  
  
• Three Diversity "Best Practices" That Hurt Women
  
  
• How Google Is Using People Analytics to Completely Reinvent HR
  
  
  

• Breaking the Email Addiction
  
  
• Regular workouts "spark" brain
  
  
• Savoring your Time
  
  
• Sustainable leadership:Perennial philosophy
  
  
• Six keys to being excellent at anything
  
  
• Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
  
  
• Train your brain to focus
  
  
• Productivity, Multitasking, and the death of the Phone
  
  
• How to be a better person - happier and more productive
  
  
• Should you and your family have more NST (Non Screen Time)?
  
  
• Faced with distraction, we need willpower
  
  
• What are you  making it mean?
  
  
• Golden rules of goal setting
  
  
• Steve Pavlina on the importance of idetfying and living your own personal values
  
  
• Sustainable leadership : Perennial philoshophy
  
  
• MBA Online, a good source of articles on a range of subjects
  
  
• Stress is not your enemy
  
  
• Are you ambitious, or HUMBitious?
  
  
• Three little habits to find focus
  
  
• You are not a computer (Try as you may)
  
  
• "What I learned from my TED Talk", a great insight on how to learn and improve at anything from Nilofer Merchant
  
  
• 4 Ways to Discover your Strengths
  
  
• Self help: try positive action not positive thinking
  
  
• Make Smarter Mistakes
  
  
• If You're Too Busy to Meditate, Read This
  
  
• Nine Things Successful People Do Differently
  
  
• Quick and Easy Ways to Quiet Your Mind
  
  
• Take Back Your Life in Ten Steps
  
  
• Sitting Is the Smoking of Our Generation
  
  
• Relax! You'll Be More Productive
  
  
• Break Your Addiction to Meetings
  
  
• How You Can Benefit from All Your Stress
  
  
• Top Executives Need Feedback - here's how they can get it
  
  
• How to Give a Meaningful Apology
  
  
• Truths for Our Daughters
  
  
  

• Proof Positive - Leadership in the Recession
  
  
• How one CEO learned to fly, article from Fortune
  
  
• How to ask better questions
  
  
• Motivating people:Getting beyond money
  Interesting short article from McKinsey on motivating your people
  
  
• Strong connections, less conflict
  
  
• Authentic Leader : How to be one by Scott Beagrie from Personnel Today magazine 2005
  
  
• Leading Outside the Lines
  
  The article can be downloaded from here
  
  
• Netflix lets its staff take as much holiday as they want, whenever they want - and it works
  
  
• Using influence to get things done, article from strategy+business. (PDF article)
  
  Link to the strategy+business website
  
  
• Why appreciation matters so much
  
  
• Four ways to build trust in employee performance reviews - Do you "Meet Expectations?"
  
  
• A  fast track to 10,000 hours of practice
  
  
• Reward value, not face time
  
  
• What if you got paid to play games at work
  
  
• There's no such thing as constructive criticism
  
  
• What every CEO needs to know about HR
  
  
• "Failure Wall" inspires success
  
  
• Managing effectively in a matrix
  
  
• Google's Quest to Build a Better Boss
  
  
• Ten ways to get people to change
  
  
• How Employee Engagement Hits the Bottom Line
  
  
• Five Ways to Retain Employees Forever
  
  
• Before you Start Talking, Think
  
  
• How to Manage Your Former Peers
  
  
• Stop Micromanaging and Learn to Delegate
  
  
• 10 Things Extraordinary People Say Every Day
  
  
• 9 Hidden Qualities of Stellar Bosses
  
  
• Your Employees Are Not Mind Readers
  
  
• The Ideal Praise-to-Criticism Ratio
  
  
• Please, No More Culture Change Initiatives
  
  
• Purpose is Good. Shared Purpose is Better
  
  
• The "Sandwich Approach" Undermines Your Feedback
  
  
• Stop Telling Your Employees What to Do
  
  
• Six Components of a Great Corporate Culture
  
  
• How to Listen When Someone is Venting
  
  
• Finding Meaning at Work, Even When Your Job Is Dull
  
  
  

Coaching and Mentoring

• How to spot the "Uncoachables" 
  
  
• Interesting recent research on what makes a difference in coaching The ties that bind.. Anna Duckworth & Erik de Haan. From Coaching at Work 4.5, September/October 2009, pp. 30-34
  
  
• Five questions every mentor must ask
  
  
• Ten steps to a coaching culture
  
  
• Useful research on the use of coaching in business in the UK by the Institute of Leadership & Management
  
  
  

Compensation and Benefits

• Managers in Emerging Economies Winning on Pay:Hay Group research finds US Managers Lose Out on Disposable Income
  
  
• Top performing companies pay 5% less
  
  
• Turkey in global top five for real term executive salaries according to Hay Group research
  
  
  

Positive Psychology

• How to be happy in yourself
  
  
• How to feel up in a downturn
  
  
• Optimists "have less heart risk"
  
  
• Optimistic women "live longer"
  
  
• Feeling grumpy "is good for you"
  
  
• Great article on self-control from The New Yorker about the famous Marshmallow Test
  
  
• Interesting article from The New Yorker on happiness and why "bad is stronger than good" 
  
  
• Martin Seligman on how he has re-thought Positive Psychology and introducing the PERMA model of well-being from his new book Flourish
  
  
• Happiness is a glass half empty 
  
  
• Finding Happiness at Work
  
  
• The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems
  
  
  

Lessons from Neuroscience for Business

• The Brain that Changes Itself-An excerpt from Norman Doidge's excellent book on brain plasticity
  This article can also be downloaded from this site - http://www.positscience.com/lp/2010Doidge2/
  
  
• Managing with the Brain in Mind-Article from strategy+business by David Rock
  This article can also be downloaded from this site (free registration required) - http://www.strategy-business.com/article/09306
  
  
• The persistence of memory
  
  
• The Trust Molecule
  
  
  

General Interest

• A useful article on the economic crisis and its long term effects from the BBC
  
  
• Pharma split on nature of mergers as kill or cure
  
  
• A guide to business finance for HR professionnals
  
  
• Making the emotional case for change : An interview with Chip Heath, from McKinsey Quarterly
  
  
• When sustainability means more than "green"
  
  
• Are you an asker or a guesser?
  
  
• 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers'
  
  
• The crash you can avoid
  A great article by Tony Schwartz on an issue of importance to OneWorld Consulting - how we can and must live with more sustainable lives at home and at work
  
  
• What is the ideal number for a social or business group? - Dunbar's Number
  
  
• Top five regrets of the dying
  
  
• 8 things great consultants say
  
  
• Stop competing to be the best
  
  
• The power of introverts : A manifesto for quiet brilliance
  
  
• Stop Listening to Your Customers
  
  
  

Business Skills

• How to present to senior executives
  
  
• Do your slides pass the glance test?
  
  
• Public Speaking for Introverts: 6 Essential Tips