In my youth, I collected every Led Zeppelin album as soon as they hit the record store. I was even fortunate enough to see them live in...

Many years ago, I was a newly minted sales manager running a Xerox corporate sales team in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sales target in hand, I...

Decades before mixed martial arts (MMA) popularity swept across the land, there was professional boxing. In the early 1900s, boxing was...

Note to the reader: This article uses the term "manhood" in reference to historical quotes. I take the non-gender view of the term and...

Earlier in my career, I worked in sales for an enterprise software company. We began every fiscal year with a sales kickoff meeting...

“Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win.” Chi-Chi Rodriguez When I was searching for famous quotes about excuses, I...

You just lost your job in a company-wide restructure program. You aren’t satisfied with your current career and want to start looking for...

In my youth, my parents limited my television time to 1.5 hours per week. In 1966, I invested a portion of that time watching “The Time...

It’s summer in Upstate NY. Forget the old joke about nine months of winter and three months of bad sledding! The weather is beautiful....

If luck were exclusively defined by success at the poker table, then I would be one of the unluckiest individuals in the world. For many...

In 1967, The Beatles released their Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Featured on that legendary album, was a song titled “A...

When you are looking for great quotes to headline a blog article, you can’t get any better than Yogi Berra. The famous NY Yankees...

This past month, I visited my mother to celebrate her 94th birthday. Still living at home, with assistance, she is an amazing woman who...

If you are looking for this week’s article to include a list of tips and tricks to improve your job search, you are going to be...

I love cover songs. A new recording of a previously released song by someone other than the original artist. For me, it’s the reason I...

What do Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol and the Declaration of Independence have in common? Both that classic piece of literature and...

It was July 3rd and the year was 1985. I was in a car with my girlfriend, engagement ring hidden safely in my pocket, racing the setting...

In Upstate NY, we call January and February the winter slog. These are the two winter months that you have to get through. Survive...

As I search for current topics to use as the foundation for blog posts on my AdvantEdge Careers website, I look for stories that inspire...