Career Plans?

How much career planning are you doing or have you done? I know several people who have mapped things out and have pretty well followed the road-map. My plan has been pretty haphazard and gone more with luck, intuition and chance. What if your career was only really destined to last 4 years? It was [...]

REWORK’s Guide to Career Change/job change

How often do you sit around a table with a group of people, at the end of the week, and listen to the complaints? Complaints about process. Complaints about people. Complaints about ideas. Complaints about the daily chore of going to a workplace that has lost its luster. And how often have you turned around [...]

Work at Work?

How much work do you get done at work? I am running into a growing number of people who are opting for a hybrid work environment, some in the office and some out of the office, simply because the box they work in is electronic resource poor and or distracting. And some of these people [...]

Making Career Choices

My conversation with Nathalie, simply a really cool person doing what she loves. Nathalie Dubois started out life studying history in Paris. The Nathalie moved to LA and became a journalist for Studio Magazine. Then Nathalie became a club organizer to the A-List. And today Nathalie is the ultimate gift giver with her company DPA. [...]

Love Your Job!

Do you love what you do? There is something about watching a person work who just loves their job! Here is a perfect example of just that. I watched this Shawarma Chef for a good 30 minutes. His hand movement, the description of sauces, the sharpening of knives, the cleanup… everything was like a poetic [...]

Why education stumbles.

For the most part the education as we know it is a process that works. But I think it could be working a whole lot better. I am also pretty sure that education, the enterprise, never really reaches its stride for one simple reason, coordination! Take any average University today, they have several hundred faculty, [...]

What are you worth?

How do we quantify our value? This is the question that we constantly find ourselves asking, especially when you are looking at an employment contract and deciding whether to continue to negotiate or take it. The problem we face as a workforce is, as Seth Godin put it in a recent blog post, that we [...]

Do more by focusing!

A conversation with TIM FERRISS about taking control of your work life. I listen to students complaining day in day out about the fact that they have too little time to get things done. Given that students, generally speaking, are so awful at managing time, setting priorities and figuring out how best to direct their [...]