All Things Related to careers
01.10.2006
The Harvard Business Review’s issue for January 2006 is devoted wholly to decision-making. I’m about one-quarter of the way through the magazine where there is an article called Decisions and Desire by Gardiner Morse. It focuses on the neuroscience behind our decision-making capacity and the growing proof that "we have dog brains, basically, with a [...]
01.06.2006
My CEO just hit me with this particular bit of wisdom. And he’s right…we tend to put more effort into the things that we own. From my own experience, I’ve never washed a rental car and I’m more invested in the home that I own now than my previous home, which I rented. So, what [...]
12.20.2005
I belong to a marketing listserve and a member posted an email he received from Chris Cardell, a marketing consultant. While Chris succumbs at times to a roaring bout of hubris in his message, he reminded me of a simple, golden principle: you get what you give. It’s a powerful idea and appropriate for this [...]
12.19.2005
Now that I can actually post to the blog again (goodbye TypePad?), I want to write about something that I’ve been itching to produce since last Friday. Beware, a rant is brewing… On my way to work, NPR’s Morning Edition had a brief segment called Salary Level May Not Indicate Contentment. If you go to [...]
12.06.2005
In the past, the topic of generations in the workplace didn’t really appeal to me as something to explore more deeply (although I did delve into it back in February). But then, Jodee Bock wrote a recent post called Identity Crisis where, in a recent training she held for supervisors, she encountered a recurring theme [...]
11.30.2005
I’ve written before about my recovery from perfectionism. One of the related habits that I’ve been able to at least consciously notice, if not kick outright, is the urge to put something on hold until all the conditions are just right. I wouldn’t quite label the action as procrastination, but the behavior has an easy [...]
11.28.2005
One of the questions I occasionally field from readers has to do with breaking into a new career field. Say you hooked a job in insurance after graduating from college and after ten years you discover your heart is really in graphic design. Or you did the corporate climb thinking that the corner office was [...]
11.20.2005
Well, at least for my own organization. In my association experience, it tends to depend on your budget cycle. And there lies one of the great problems with the whole performance review: money and performance are tightly linked. So, what’s wrong with that? Everything. I could go on and on about this, but greater and [...]
11.17.2005
Are making a difference and happiness linked? Curt Rosengren points to recent research supporting the connection. Lately, I’ve been having watercooler chats with my staff, trying to get a better grasp of what we can do together to create the kind of workplace that inspires and excites folks. Working in non-profits, you come to understand [...]
11.11.2005
A couple of months ago, I wrote a post called Fight or Flight about A.G. Lafley’s experience with trying to figure out when to leave a company. In a recent post called How To Know When To Change Jobs, Steven Kempton offers a complementary point of focus: Quite often a change does help but it [...]
