Don’t you love it when the fates align? At the same time that I was writing a New York Times op-ed on the rise of the independent workforce, I had the opportunity to meet Nacie Carson, a twenty-something author and …
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From humankind’s earliest days, mentors and coaches have been a significant ingredient in the careers of many accomplished individuals. As they reported in Fast Company in 2006, Jim Bolt and Brian Underhill conducted a study that found that 56 percent …
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Many people (myself included) predicted a mass exodus of workers from their jobs when the economy picked up. According to a recent survey conducted by Robert Half International and OfficeTeam, a staffing service specializing in the placement of administrative professionals, …
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Bruce Tulgan is one of the top thinkers in the world of generational differences and intergenerational communication. In fact, he has served as a mentor to me in this space for the better part of a decade. On his blog, …
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When my friend Ben Casnocha sent me a copy of his new book, The Start-Up of You, I knew that I was going to read something innovative about networking. After all, Ben wrote it with Reid Hoffman, the cofounder and …
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I used to think that a leader was powerful if she had a lot of financial responsibility, or if he was directly responsible for a team of hundreds of people. But, as we first talked about here last summer, there …
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In recent years, staycations – vacation time taken without leaving one’s home – have become popular. I’ve been hearing about them a lot more during the summer of 2012, when gas prices and airfares are especially high. More on this …
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