An overbearing career is unhealthy, says Stan Christensen, Arbor Advisors Partner. Rather than working long hours, Christensen relays a successful negotiation with his manager explaining his interests outside of work. He asked to be judged by the tasks he completed, and not by the amount of hour...
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You’ve got to be careful with soft skills. For example, I want to be champion. I want to be a great player. How great can I be if that's my goal? Well, you've got to be with great people because there's no way a great quarterback's going to do anything without a great team. No one ever says "The...
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When you’re younger, you don't really realize how much you really are negotiating in your daily life. It really is just a great skill. It's a great skill in my marriage. It's a great skill in football. It's a great skill in business. It's a skill, and it's all about people. It has all kinds of e...
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Leaving a job is as critical a negotiation as starting one, says Arbor Advisors partner Stan Christensen, and the last impression you make is even more critical than the first. Christensen offers two examples of employees who have left his firm: One who shared his desire to move on and arranged ...
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Men and women do indeed negotiate for compensation differently, says Stan Christensen, Arbor Advisors partner and Stanford instructor. He cites one study where 60 percent of men asked for more money, whereas women with comparable backgrounds asked for more money only ten percent of the time.
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Stan Christensen, Stanford instructor and a partner at Arbor Advisors, outlines a few of the erroneous career assumptions that land workers in an ill-fitting career. Don’t take a job simply to build your resume; follow your passions, rather than guessing what an employer will want. The fun shoul...
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Do as much informational interviewing as you can, advises Arbor Advisors partner Stan Christensen, who, through the practice, learned that law school was not a good fit for his interests. Learning the specifics of a prospective career from a distance is an enriching road map to a career path tha...
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All organizations of employment have a political structure and revolve around the subtle arts of negotiation and relationship management. How we treat our peers - particularly our subordinates - speaks a lot about a person’s character, say Arbor Advisors partner Stan Christensen. Particularly wh...
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Stan Christensen, partner at Arbor Advisors and Stanford instructor, advises those planning a career not to be overly concerned with a linear path. While certainly there are some jobs that require specific training and expertise, the majority of positions in the business world are available to t...
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Stanford instructor and Arbor Advisors partner Stan Christensen strongly advises career carvers to save salary negotiations for last, and not to overlook the myriad other topics of new employment to be discussed, including time off, assignment specifics, start dates, etc. When it is time to disc...
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I went to law school. I graduated from BYU (Brigham Young University) in 1994. I went over six years. I took second semester classes throughout the whole six years. I took first semester law school classes, which is all first year properties, torts... I audited them, passed them. That allowed me...
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Your very first negotiation was with the team in a different league, the LA Express. You had quite a negotiation with that owner. Tell that story and what lessons you learned from it. Steve Young: It was an awesome, awesome negotiation. There was a time over twenty years ago, which is really ama...
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