Month: August 2015
3 Tips for Settling Into Your First Job
You’ve just started your new job at a big engineering firm, fresh out of college. You go in with an attitude of part-anxiety and part-excitement to show off your youthful energy, even though you know that almost nothing that you learned in the last four years is going to beRead More
5 Questions To Make Starting Your Own Business Easier
I had worked at the company since I was 20 years old as an intern. I had a great relationship with my boss Nick, who was also one of my close friends. Together we had grown the business from running out of his living room into a real company. IRead More
How to Balance Your Career Goals with Family
Don’t apologize for wanting to be an achiever. You’re willing to work hard. You take the extra assignment. You want to do whatever is necessary to get ahead. While some today use overachiever as a derogatory term, you reach for the higher rung — with the best of motives. IfRead More
7 Ways to Network on LinkedIn
Getting to know people in real life may be easy, but connecting with complete strangers online in hopes of gaining something from the exchange can be quite challenging. It’s funny how every other advice-giver seems to love saying, “Make sure you network,” or “Try building connections,” without offering other piecesRead More
5 Reasons Entrepreneurship Isn’t as Risky as You Think
Have you been mulling over the idea you have about starting a business? You think, “I could really start a company. I see these folks on Shark Tank. I could do that.” You know that your corporate job is slowly crushing you, bit by bit. But then you read somewhereRead More
6 Steps to a More Satisfying Career Path
With my corporate clients, I’m often involved in career transition programs. This involves facilitating or coaching leaders as they prepare and build their personal brand for the next stage in their career. Most of the dialogues start from the wise premise, “What got you here, won’t get you there.” BehindRead More
5 Ways to Retrain Your Brain
It was once generally accepted that we were born with a certain capacity to learn and we did the best we could with what we had. We now know differently. Since the 1990s — also known as “the decade of the brain” — neuroscientists have discovered that we can actuallyRead More
10 Must-Have Attributes for a Modern Leader
Leaders: some say they are born, while others say they are made. First thing’s first, dwelling on these premises is futile because leadership is an attribute that pretty much falls in a, say, complex region. On one hand, some people are indeed born with superb leadership skills that are simplyRead More