All Things Related to careers
02.13.2007
For some good Tuesday humor that might conjure up images of Office Space, John West offers five ways to kill your career. Ignore deadlines Turn in sloppy work Make sure everyone knows you’re right Obfuscate your communication Always focus on #1 As John points out, it takes dedication and savvy to do this right. Constantly [...]
02.04.2007
I’m not sure about you, but the Super Bowl ads this year sucked like nobody’s business. Can someone explain to me how you can justify spending all that money ($2.6 million by some counts) to get your name out there and produce such lousy, uninteresting, and tepid commercials? I usually enjoy the ads as much [...]
01.11.2007
Two posts in one day? Say it isn’t so. As the husband to a current stay-at-home mom, I thought this quote from Debra J. Dickerson in a recent Salon.com article was awesome: Far be it for me to reduce Nancy Pelosi to merely the sum of the carpool miles she drove, but it took an [...]
12.11.2006
If you’re a manager or other stripe of executive who happens to leave one organization for another, I implore you not to pull an “Erickson.” What’s an Erickson, you ask? It’s a decidedly anti-leader move that firmly and publicly announces how much the current company and its employees have held you back from greatness. Why is [...]
10.07.2006
I’ve been struggling with this post for the better part of the past week, so deeply enmeshed in its familiarity…it’s been difficult to detach myself from the central message. However, Curt Rosengren’s recent post on revelling in the unfamilar has nudged me over the hump, now coasting downward with momentum to write something (hopefully) comprehensible. [...]
06.10.2006
My wife brought me a lesson yesterday evening that really hit home. She was chatting with a friend from a past job who had some interesting news about a former co-worker. Turns out he got fired for both not adhering to clearly communicated working policies and thinking he was above those rules as an assistant [...]
06.02.2006
Don Blohowiak at Leadership. Now. has a kick-butt post called Boomers on Holiday, and while the focus was on my dad’s generation it still resonates with me as a Gen-Xer. Here’s a taste: Most boomers are weary…They’re weary to the bone of a career that has been predicated on one word: More. As in ever-more [...]
06.01.2006
Perusing other career blogs today, I came across this post at Recruiting.com. The idea that companies might do credit checks on new hires isn’t exactly a new concept. I have to admit that after my last foray into the self-employment world a year or so ago, my credit isn’t as sparkling as it used to [...]
05.22.2006
Since making the big announcement of our plans to hitch our wagon for Austin, TX, we’ve received a wide spectrum of responses from friends, family, and a few strangers. For the most part, the response has been overwhelmingly supportive bordering on admiration for taking such a grand leap of faith. That’s always appreciated considering there [...]
05.16.2006
While in Austin, TX this past week, I had some time to kill and discovered the wonderful BookPeople store. While browsing through their business section, I stumbled across a gem called Joy at Work by Dennis Bakke. The subtitle is A Revolutionary Approach to Fun on the Job (there’s that word ‘fun’ again). What is [...]
