4 Steps to Successfully Selling Your Big Idea
1. Write It Down How many times have you thought of a neat idea only to forget it hours or days later? Our most innovative ideas are more likely to come to us when we are away from the office, …
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Change: The Only Constant
Change is inevitable. No matter how good or bad things are, they will change. You’d think we would have figured this out by now and learned to deal with change a lot better than we do. The fact remains that …
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Career Advice from Sheryl Sandberg’s HBS Commencement Speech
Last month, Sheryl Sandberg (COO at Facebook) gave a very inspiring commencement speech to the 2012 graduating class of Harvard Business School. She shares lessons learned from her own career as well as futuristic career advice based on current and …
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Considering a Reverse Mentoring Program?
I first started talking about reverse mentoring in 2007, when I did a presentation to Campbell Soup global leadership about the Millennial generation. The company went on to develop a so-termed “bridge network” to connect promising young professionals with entrenched …
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Dress Code or Not, What You Wear Matters
The effect of your clothing choices might be much more powerful than you think. Fair or not, people judge us by the way we look and that includes the way we dress. For example, women dressed in a masculine fashion …
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How to Find a Mentor
You’ve probably read plenty of advice telling you to find a mentor – someone who can advise you on career decisions, help you navigate tricky politics, and generally help you succeed professionally. But how are you supposed to find this …
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What You Must Learn from Yahoo!’s Ousted CEO
As of this week, Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson was called to step down from his position following a scandal involving his credentials. An investor recently discovered that on Thompson’s resume, the ex-CEO claims he graduated with a computer science degree …
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