Walking Meetings

November 12, 2011

Print This PostSteve Jobs was known for scheduling a meeting with someone then when that person arrived, asking them if they would go for a walk with him.  Walter Isaacson’s book Steve Jobs contains stories of CEOs, board members, colleagues, employees, designers, etc. walking with Jobs instead of sitting in an office across from someone [...]

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Date of Birth on Job Application

November 4, 2011

Print This PostA friend of mine is looking for a job—like millions of other people—and she had a good example of how employers can discriminate against age and probably ability to do a job. When my friend went online to submit her resume and apply for a job at a company, one of the fields [...]

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My Recovery Reading List

November 3, 2011

Print This PostWhen recovering from major surgery, you have to relax and ask others for help, take naps to revive your energy, and enjoy walks that get longer each day.  My recovery is going well, especially because one way for me to relax is to read some good books, scan magazine articles looking for the [...]

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American vs. Italian Colleges: Marco Marazzi

October 30, 2011

Print This Post My college students are wonderful people with great potential in their fields.  One of those wonderful students is Marco Marazzi, a native of Italy, whom I met when he attended my fall 2010 Organizational Behavior management class at the Zicklin School of Business within Baruch College, one of the nation’s most diverse [...]

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Disability: a Second Career for L.I.R.R. Workers

October 29, 2011

Print This PostPerhaps its time for Occupy Wall Street to refocus its energy and take a look at the $1billion and more that Long Island Railroad (L.I.R.R.) workers are hoping to use to fund their disability careers while playing golf, doing aerobics, biking, etc.  When people are desperate to find jobs that can support their [...]

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Prakash on Making Changes to Advance Your Career

October 28, 2011

Print This PostIt is with pleasure that I once again step away from writing a post and instead offer the platform to my colleague Prof. Prakash Rao who can offer his expertise (a previous post is Prakash on Project Management).  Today’s post on career advancement is taken with his permission from his blog about workphilosophy “Work Life [...]

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Fortune 18/500=Thank Helen Reddy

October 28, 2011

Print This PostThere is now a record 18 Fortune 500 female CEOs.  The record number was achieved when it was announced earlier this week that Virginia (Ginni) Rometty would move into the CEO position at IBM.  Ranked 7 as one of the Most Powerful Women, Rometty will assume her position in January 2012 and current [...]

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Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month: It Couldn’t Be Me

October 26, 2011

Print This PostSeptember was Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, a month that made me aware of the power of wonderful doctors, friends and family, and a positive attitude in a healing process.  The fact that I am posting this on a blog about management and the business world is because I want to share an experience [...]

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Prakash on Project Management

October 8, 2011

Print This PostMy teaching colleague, Prakash Rao, is the guest blogger today.  He brings his expertise and experiences as a Partner at Accenture, Senior Director at FXall, Senior Vice President at Hexaware Technologies, and other positions to the classes he teaches in the Management Department at the Zicklin School of Business within Baruch College.  This [...]

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Attributes of Job Satisfaction

October 8, 2011

Print This PostRecently, students in the “Organizational Behavior” class I teach took a short survey to rate the attributes of Job Satisfaction.  The pool of raters was small—just 13—but it offered insight into what college students who work full- or part-time want in order to be satisfied in their jobs. The highest and most consistent [...]

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