Last night, my boyfriend didn’t get home from work until 8 p.m.
Considering his workload and long-ish commute, 8 p.m. really wasn’t that late. As a former ad gal myself, I try to remember long hours come with the territory. And with long hours come dinners alone, but those hours also give me the chance to catch up [Read More]
I am the girl who cried wolf. Unlike the shepherd boy in Aesop’s fable, I am not repeatedly tricking people into thinking a wolf is attacking my flock of sheep. I don’t own any sheep, but I do have an email account. And my auto-reply, which is set to be on permanently, says that I only check email [Read More]
Recently as I was driving my youngest son, 11, to his cousin’s house for a sleepover, I told him that my idea for a blog post had been given the green light, and I shared with him my feelings of excitement, gratitude and emotion.
He looked at me calmly and said “Mom, MILLIONS of people write [Read More]
Whether you love your job or hate it, chances are you have experienced a bad day at work. When you’re in the thick of it all, you may feel trapped. Try to get through your next bad day at work and still come out with a smile with these tips…
This is the story of how I hacked my life and career last year to get closer to the front lines of health-care innovation – and my family.
It is also the story of how you can reinvent your own path in order to fix what’s broken in your career or fix imbalance between your work [Read More]
You have to make the call you’re afraid to make.
You have to get up earlier than you want to get up.
You have to give more than you get in return right away.
You have to care more about others than they care about you.
You have to fight when you are already injured, bloody, and sore.
You have [Read More]
LinkedIn is becoming more than a self-promotional, résumé building site. Now, businesses have found a way to be relevant on the social media site too. A social media presence on LinkedIn is different than being connected on other social media sites. LinkedIn has one obvious difference that separates itself from the other social media sites: a professional atmosphere. [Read More]
We interviewed Adam Bryant, author of Quick and Nimble, about his new book and the ‘X’ factor that makes some companies succeed while others fail.
1. For your book, you interviewed hundreds of CEOs on how to drive a culture of innovation in today’s competitive workplace. What was the most interesting insight or strategy you took [Read More]
Quality work, quality of life, or quality of compensation? According to Sally Hogshead’s Radical Truth #13 (from this book), you may only get to pick one or maybe two. So what do you choose to seek in your career choice?
What’s most important is that you find the work environment that you find fulfilling. Some careers (like advertising) [Read More]
Commuting. All-hands meetings. Status meetings. Team meetings. Concept meetings. Presentation meetings. (Yep, all kinds of meetings.) Each of these were a part of my everyday world for 12 years. And for 12 years, I dreamed of the day when I would become a freelance writer. Of the day that I could escape the corporate world and become my [Read More]
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