Martin Short DIY in Career Planning

Martin Short is an excellent example of how a career can develop and keeping your focus on what you do. I love his take on the idea of being an entertainer! Martin Short is one of those people I would love to have around a dinner table, not for his comedy but for the conversation [...]

Career Path Fog

One of the things I have become fascinated by is how people get into their careers. Sometimes, as a professor of communication and media sciences, I am uneasy talking about career options becasue who knows where you might end up with a communication degree. Sure many, maybe even the majority of grads ,will travel along [...]

Is she really an accountant?

You know how it goes, we hear a person does a particular job and we put them into a box. Not a literal box, but we do stereotype people according to what we think they do in their particular profession. Take the accountant. Want to be stuck in an elevator with an accountant? Probably not. [...]

Lessons from Tim O’Reilly

What will I do when I grow up? What career options are there? Is the work fun? These are all questions I get asked regularly by students from KG through university. We spend a lot of time trying to design a career and I am almost certain that that is our greatest downfall. How do [...]

Re-Apply?

I was reading my daily page of “U2 by U2″, a book about the band that very surprisingly is filled with anecdotes and ideas that can inform the way we think about education, business and even our personal interactions! Today’s gem in the rough was Bono talking about how in 2000 it felt to him [...]

Why we fail?

One of our greatest problems today is the silo culture of education. Business schools do not talk to design schools who do not talk to education schools who do not talk to IT schools and nobody is talking to the cooking schools. Well, if the core elements of our education system are not relating to [...]