There is an essential personal quality that will carry you through career ups and downs to reach your goals. That essential quality is fearlessness. The biggest problem in the working world is fear. People who can see the scary aspects of making changes and telling the truth but do those things anyway get what they want, and they deserve it. Fearless people cannot help but succeed because they keep taking steps, and they keep learning. If they fall down, they get up.

Would you like a powerful and lasting way to create fierce loyalty in any group setting? Do you want a master key to the hearts and minds of your next audience? In his book, Conversation Tactics: Strategies to Confront, Challenge, and Resolve, Patrick King teaches how to prepare for difficult conversations in a manner that results in a positive outcome for both parties.

We are enjoying the first signs of spring in Utah. The landscapers are busy cutting away the old branches from the trees and bushes around our office building at Fishbowl. It’s actually startling to see them so exposed, bruised and thin. Our local landscaper explained that if he didn’t trim portions of the trees and bushes they would not grow strong in the next season. Perhaps the old saying is true: life doesn’t get easier, we just get stronger.

Getting ready to start a job hunt? Here are 25 essential elements you’ll need in your Job-Seeker’s Toolkit! 1. A career direction to focus on as you begin your job search, so that you’re not wasting your time applying for jobs you’d never be considered for. Your branding in your Human-Voiced Resume and your LinkedIn profile will make it clear to hiring managers that you’re more than qualified for the jobs you pursue. 2.

I spoke to Arianna Huffington, the cofounder, president and editor in chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, about how workers can sleep more despite having larger workloads, how getting more sleep impacted her life in a positive way, how sleep impacts employee productivity and happiness, the role companies should play when it comes to sleep and her best advice.

First came steam and water power; then electricity and assembly lines; then computerization… So what comes next? Some call it the fourth industrial revolution, or industry 4.0, but whatever you call it, it represents the combination of cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, and the Internet of Systems.

Email. It’s difficult to imagine a world without this most ubiquitous of business tools. However, a growing number of corporate leaders across the globe are discovering that limiting or even banning employees’ access to email actually increases their productivity. A number of different studies conducted recently support assertions that email isn’t the best tool for staying productive and stress-free.

This is Mentoring Moments (#18), a series of wow-you-need-to-know-this stories (each told in under two minutes) from successful women of multiple generations.  Jessica Herrin, CEO and Founder of the Stella & Dot Family Brands. Photo courtesy of Stella & Dot Jessica Herrin is giving today’s busy women what they asked for: entrepreneurial opportunities that come with flexible schedules and incomes, but without the stress of launching their own companies.

I couldn’t care less whether someone I am considering for a job opening has done the job before. If they’ve already done the job, my first question will be “Why do you want to do the same thing again?” I want to understand a job-seeker’s path. Where is he or she headed? That doesn’t mean that I expect or want someone to have a five-year plan. I certainly don’t have a five-year plan. Five years is a long time.

I can’t shake this lyric from Carole King’s song Beautiful out of my mind: You’ve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face. And show the world all the love in your heart.