“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save”
Will Rogers
If you have read my earlier posts on Ajax, the current guide dog puppy my wife and I are raising you will know of our commitment to this volunteer puppy raiser program we [...]
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 cover letters, going beyond the numbers, [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Transitioning to Management: Leading Professional and Expert-Based Groups
Competencies: leadership, career development
Who benefits: specialists in or transitioning to leadership roles, bosses and coaches of specialists
Consultant Usage: executive and career development coaches
What’s it about? Today’s posting is a follow-up to my colleague/boss Ken Nowack’s wonderfully insightful post of a month ago entitled [...]
You’d like Jack. Everybody does.
Jack’s retired now, after a long, successful career at a Fortune 200 company. That’s where he developed a reputation for hiring great people.
I chased him for months to get him to sit down talk about what he looked for when he was hiring. Jack was reluctant. It seemed like bragging to [...]
“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”
Aaron Levenstein
Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think?
1. A recent 2009 survey by Accenture on work life balance found an interesting surprise–68% of the men in 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 revamping your job search, social networks, [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Competencies: leadership, adaptability, strategic problem solving, change management, self-development
Who benefits: leaders, managers, any individual confronting “change issues”
Consultant Usage: must read for organizational consultants
What’s it about? This book by the Heath bros. – Dan and Chip – of Made To Stick fame, came [...]
We gathered at a cold and windy gravesite at the far end of the state to say good-bye. There weren’t a lot of people there, in the cold middle of the week, but some had driven over three hours.
The woman whose body we buried didn’t have one of those lives that are significant in the [...]
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
Albert Einstein
How trusting are you?
Here is a quick quiz to test your level of trust:
1. I usually count the number of items in another person’s cart when I stand in the 10 item or less express lane at [...]