Do you remember your last job interview? Did you research the company and cram to determine the straight-A answers for the questions they were likely to ask? Were you nervous? After the interview, did you worry about whether or not they approved of you or the answers you gave? A friend of mine went through […]
Archive | Riffs & Ideas
According to wiki, “In jazz and R&B, riffs are often used as the starting point for longer compositions”. In our case, we’d like to think of them as the starting point for random stories. This could be the random section where even whining is allowed. Heck, it could eventually turn into a song.
Customize Your Life
Are you slogging through some parts of your life? Work? Relationships? Have you ever noticed how quickly time passes when you are doing something in which you are truly passionate and engaged? So many of us are doing what we “should” be doing. Maybe we selected our profession because we were good at a particular […]
You Don’t Have to be Friends with Everyone
A few years ago, early during a brief tenure with a fair-sized development agency, I led a one-day training of management skills for a group of about 15 managers. I gave an overview of management styles, teams and empowerment, communication, decision-making, time management, delegation, and performance reviews. Most participants were new to management. They […]
Living is Vital
Last week, I was speaking with one of my interns. She is a senior university student who has had several diverse jobs and internships over the last couple of years. She has seen a variety of careers and jobs and lifestyles in this short time period. She was reflecting on all of this, wondering out […]
The Ongoing 40’s Dilemma
In our society, when you hit 40, you should have “made it” by now. The definition might vary between – improving upon your parents success and ensuring they are taken care of – really hitting it “big” financially – dream house, dream job, white picket fence – gated community and being a member of the […]
Transforming the Work Week
I want to make a prediction. The workweek as we know it will shift for the corporate masses in the U.S. And I’m not talking about a “work from home day”. With enough studies to prove the ineffectiveness in the office, and enough technology to evolve how we work and collaborate, my prediction is that […]
Channelling Success
There are times in our lives when we are on top of the world. The Gods are on our side and we’ve hit a streak of good fortune. Or we’ve simply found our “zen” and we can relax about the things we cannot control. And then there are times when we’ve hit an all-time low. […]
The Giants Among Us
When sitting down with a past work acquaintance yesterday over coffee, Jim shared some interesting insights about ‘big personalities’ that I thought amusing enough, and true enough, to write about. We both referred to a certain someone whose name won’t be mentioned, but who sees himself as a sort of icon. He asked if it […]
Holiday Returns
Today I resolved to do my least favorite post-holiday thing – run errands and return stuff. Mostly my very own frivolous purchases during Black Friday when my family bought way too much crap at 7 am at Freddy’s. Socks, scarves, who knows what else and why. But I also had another case of being given […]
Currency of Tomorrow
As covert agents, wheels continue to spin around how we can lead in an ever changing economy, and make it better. I’ve been thinking a lot about currency and the different kinds that exist. Money, bitcoin and digital currencies, networks, position and rank, bonuses, time, gifts or rewards, points and badges, and I’m sure there […]
