There is an uncomfortable, anxious pang that wells up in you when the halls have been empty for hours, and you know that you and the janitor are the only people in the building – again. You feel like maybe the fault is yours, that you aren’t quite...
Topics: Accountability, Career, Corporate Culture

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You’re tired of the race. Tired of working tirelessly in shifting sands of corporate America as an exempt FTE. But you do it with the hope of the BIG payday. You’ve got options in the company, and it seems that if everyone just works a little.
Topics: Branding, Career, Measure, Networking, Recognition

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So, I just heard that Yahoo! Finance has decided to fire Penelope Trunk.I mean, who would want to work with someone who thinks like this?I just choose the lifestyle I want first, before I choose my work. Lifestyle first means that I turned down...
Topics: Career, Firing

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Anyone who talks to me about their current corporate career will likely have heard me utter—likely innumerable times—my quintessential thought about staying in one place too long, “You’re not going to retire from...
Topics: Career, Employment, Firing, Hiring, Jobs

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Everyone complains about meetings. Seems that they’re all useless.But I have to imagine that there are some meetings that are valuable. Aren’t there? I mean, I get the chance to participate in some pretty productive meetings.So I know...
Topics: Career, Meetings

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