November 12, 2013 • Volume 4, Issue 23 • ISSN: 2154-3240

In This Issue

♦	Feature Article: Stay on Top of Your Game
♦	Ask Amanda: I’m afraid I’m going to lose my job! Suggestions?
♦	Practical Tips: Having it All

Stay on Top of Your Game

The fourth quarter is often stressful for executives—if it’s not the holidays, it’s making your year-end numbers, and, if you’re lucky, scoring a bonus. When we get stressed, our good habits usually fall by the wayside as we try to cram more work into less time. We can end up burning the candle at both ends as we try to fit in the holiday party. Beyond being bad for your health, falling off the “health” wagon is often bad for your career.

Consider this:
Holidays are high-visibility time in most companies and industries. Opportunities abound for mingling regardless of your level or role. It’s a great time for you to create or reinforce perceptions of yourself with the influencers in your field. It’s in your best interest to show your best self, but making good impressions is much more difficult when you’re exhausted, burnt out, and not in the best of moods.
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	Carve out space for what you value.

Practical Tips: Having it All

You probably think I’m going to say that having it all isn’t possible. Nope. A new study shows that ambitious, successful people who actually make it to the top not only are richer than the rest of us, but they apparently live longer, too.

Timothy Judge, the Franklin Schurz Chair of Management at the University of Notre Dame and co-author John D. Kammeyer-Mueller of the Warrington College of Business, looked at data collected as part of a multi-decade study that followed more than 1,500 California children who scored high on intelligence tests.
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I am freaked out—all of a sudden there are tons of meetings behind closed doors even though it's the holidays and I'm afraid I'm going to lose my job…what should I do? C.M., Park Slope, N.Y.

I recommend that regardless of the season, you should focus on what you can control and concentrate on your own career agenda. One way to stay powerful is to reconnect with your network. A good thing about the holiday season is that there are usually a lot of social events.
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About Us: Our Corporate Life LLC (OCL) is a company that offers a new system for reducing unnecessary workplace suffering caused by the organizational, interpersonal, and ethical issues of our time. It is founded on the belief that adhering to core human values and achieving business success are always compatible. Working with both companies and individuals, OCL helps create solutions that enable corporate employees at every level to optimize profits while enabling them to thrive in the corporate environment. OCL was founded by Amanda Mitchell to help meet the needs of people working in corporate America during this transformative moment in our nation's history. The OCL system reflects her experience and insight gained from a 20–year corporate career working with Fortune 500 companies, and as an executive coach to senior–level corporate executives.