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 helping your boss de-stress, keeping promises, [...]
I just read Sangeeth Varghese’s column in Forbes that was titled “Embrace Routine.” It got me thinking about how many of the people I coach see any routine as the enemy. They think that they’ll be more productive and more creative if they’re free from all restraints.
That’s not how it works. A pinch of routine, [...]
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 building credibility at work, social media [...]
The Wall Street Journal just ran a great article titled: “A Wandering Mind Heads Straight Toward Insight.” Here’s the lead.
“It happened to Archimedes in the bath. To Descartes it took place in bed while watching flies on his ceiling. And to Newton it occurred in an orchard, when he saw an apple fall. Each had [...]
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 finding a job when you’ve just [...]
A famous Winston Churchill quote advises us to “Never, Never, Never give up.”
There are times when pressing on regardless is the right thing. If you’re in sales, you have to keep making calls. If you’re looking for a job you have to keep looking. But that doesn’t mean you should keep doing things the same [...]
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 myths about climbing the ladder, getting [...]
This last week I talked to three different people who are in jobs they want to leave. All three have tested the job market waters and decided to stay put for now.
That’s a common position these days. Here’s some advice for you or someone you care about who is hanging on while waiting for 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 telephone interviews, learning to let go [...]
It was a little more than a decade ago that I heard the term “personal branding” for the first time. Tom Peters used it in an article titled “The Brand Called You” that appeared in Fast Company magazine in 1997. I didn’t think much about it at the time.
A few years Peter Montoya interviewed me [...]