5 Ways Careers Are Like Dieting
One year after my daughter was born, I finally managed to lose all of my baby weight. The process was intense and reminded me a lot of what it’s like to build a career. Along those lines, here are five …
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7 Ways to Ensure Your Employer Can’t Survive Without You
It sometimes is one of the great mysteries of the universe that the most obnoxious jerk on the planet gets promoted at work while the nicest folks seem to get laid off or stuck in dead-end jobs. But it’s really …
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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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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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What Will Young Workers in 2030 Be Like?
Did you know that there’s another baby boom on? Since the mid 2000s, the fertility rate in the U.S. has been at its highest since 1971, meaning that the generation preliminarily known as Generation Z is actually larger than its …
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iQuit: Handle Sensitive Matters in Person
We’ve all been there. You need to tell your boss you feel angry or overworked, or god forbid you want to quit. You can’t stomach the thought of going into her office and telling her, so you send an e-mail or …
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Survive a Work Scandal Without Permanent Damage
While writing my recent book Blind Spots, I had the opportunity to meet Patrick Rodgers. Patrick was a lawyer who had been a notable member of his community since he was young, participating in the Kiwanis Club and his local …
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