Supercharge Your Job and Career Goals

December 13, 2011

Print This Post Do you need help with your job search?  Do you need support to help you advance to a higher level position within your current company?  Or transition your skills to a new career?  Have you developed a strategic career plan to reach your goals?  If your answers reveal that you need an affordable [...]

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Women’s Auxiliary in the Workplace

December 8, 2011

Print This PostFifteen years ago in the course of my work as director of marketing for an international hotel group, I called my counterpart Marjorie in our London office just before I had an appointment with Mark, the president of our company. At the start of the meeting, I told him that I had a [...]

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The Seduction of Technology

December 1, 2011

Print This PostYesterday, I wrote two posts about workplace 2020, the topic for one of my students’ written assignments in “Organizational Behavior.”  I chose the topic of “The Impact of Technology on Workplace 2020” because I know that it will challenge individuals to reflect on what and how technology will be part of not just [...]

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Life and Work in 2020

November 30, 2011

Print This PostAs I mentioned in my previous post Baby Boomers on Future Technology, my college students will be writing on “The Impact of Technology on Workplace 2020.”  The technology, however, won’t be confined to the workplace but supports, challenges, and at times invades the life we live—for better or maybe not.  Below are some [...]

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Baby Boomers on Future Technology

November 30, 2011

Print This Post“The Impact of Technology on Workplace 2020” is the topic of the final written assignment this semester for my undergraduate management students.  They are to answer the following questions in their paper:  What job you will be doing? What technology will you will using? Why will you be using that technology? Where you [...]

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Check Your Workplace Climate

November 28, 2011

Print This PostWhat is the climate of your workplace?  The atmosphere of the Wall Street firm depicted in the excellent movie “Margin Call” sums up what life is like at a very high temperature.  I hope that the environment at your workplace is cooler but it is not “freezing” either because employees are not speaking [...]

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Thanksgiving Traditions and Thank Yous

November 24, 2011

Print This Post It is a perfect day in Manhattan for the 85th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, for my trip to Westchester to enjoy a traditional turkey dinner with wonderful friends, and for taking the time to say “Thank You.” When I was a child in Los Angeles, I would get up early on Thanksgiving [...]

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Preparing for the Stage—or a Job Interview

November 20, 2011

Print This PostHow is learning lines in a Shakespeare script to perform on stage similar to preparing for a job interview?  There are many ways in which the preparation is the same. On Tuesday evening, my management students will be reciting lines of Shakespeare on stage in a large campus theatre.  The plays I chose [...]

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Be Seen and Be Hired

November 19, 2011

Print This Post“A stable work future isn’t about finding a lifelong employer.  It’s about being able to land the next professional opportunity—which means mastering the digital job hunt,” Virginia Sole-Smith writes in Your New Job Security Starts Here in More Magazine (October 2011).  Developing a profile of your career experience and expertise online is critical [...]

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Brilliant “Margin Call”

November 16, 2011

Print This Post“Margin Call” is not just another Wall Street movie.  It is the best movie I’ve seen in this genre and one that tells the inside story of how a financial institution collapsed. “The movie is a fictionalized account of a disastrous twenty-four hours in 2008, when ‘financial instruments’ that had seemed solid dissolved [...]

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