Category Archives: Career
Help Me Help You: Six Networking Tips for Job Seekers
Over the last couple of years, I’ve met hundreds of very experienced and qualified job-seeking executives who made professional networking their temporary full-time jobs. Here …
5 Work-Life Balance Truths
At this point in my life and career, I like to think I have a solid grasp on what I need to achieve work-life balance. …
6 Must-Haves for Writing a Compelling, Professional Bio
If you don’t have a professional bio, or if it’s been acquiring electronic dust in a long lost folder, it’s probably time you created or …
It Just Takes 3 Things To Be Wildly Successful
Have you heard of Adam Grant? If not, you soon will. Not only is Dr. Grant the youngest tenured professor at The Wharton School of …
Who’s On Your New Employee’s Integration Team?
In an earlier post, I wrote about career transitions and creating a plan to ensure quick and thorough transition of knowledge and job responsibilities. People transitioning out …
5 Ways to Grow Fleeting Contacts into Lasting Relationships
Contact: an acquaintance, colleague, or relative through whom a person can gain access to information, favors, influential people and the like. Relationship: the way in …
What Is Your Personal Career ROI (Return On Investment)?
Most people are familiar with the concept of return on investment (ROI) in a business context. When considering a new project, initiative or capital expenditure, …
The Myths of Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead’
I didn’t really want to write about ‘Lean In’. What was left to say? The COO of Facebook’s new book is out this week accompanied by countless …
Women and Work: Are You Watching the Fire? Or Doing Your Part?
I am simultaneously fascinated, horrified, stunned and motivated by the firestorm of conversations occurring right now around two events: The leaked Yahoo memo announcing the …
Emily Bennington’s WHO SAYS IT’S A MAN’S WORLD [Book Review]
I had one of the most enjoyable and enlightening plane rides in a really long time and it had nothing to do with the airline …