Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about career advice, when they don’t call [...]
“Thinking outside the box” is still the top business jargon nonsense phrase. It’s so over-used that it’s almost impossible to wring any insight out of it.
So try this, instead. Think outside your own box.
A post by Frank Roche at KnowHR got me thinking about that. Here’s how his post begins.
“Here’s my interview question of the [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about starting a new job, mastering technology, [...]
Maybe you’re thinking that this is just the time to head back to school. If you know what you want, you should consider the newer, more narrowly focused programs that have been springing up recently. They’ve been especially noticeable in business schools.
Since 2001, the number of business students enrolled in specialized programs has increased by [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about sleep, saying “No,” your pregnancy and [...]
My wife put her new cookbook down. Hard.
“It’s another stupid ‘just-like’ cookbook,” she sneered.
My wife hates “just-like” cookbooks. They’re the cookbooks that suggest that any dish, no matter how complex, can be created in half the time of the famous recipe, if not less. They claim it’s “just like the original.”
My wife knows what every [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about job search books, advanced degree programs, [...]
There’s much ado about “lifelong learning” as a requirement for our fast-changing times, but not much about how you can enrich your life and, perhaps, your career by teaching yourself.
There’s a fancy word for that. It’s “autodidact.” Become one and you join a distinguished club made up of people who’ve taught themselves important things. Members [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about gifts you can give your career, [...]
I don’t know how it is for you, but this time of year is kind of slow for me. The week between Christmas and New Year’s and the first few days of the year don’t have a lot of coaching appointments or meetings.
It’s nice, unstructured time, especially after the rush of the holidays. It’s a [...]