Recently I caught a televised talk by Steven Greenhouse, author of a new book, badly titled The Big Squeeze. See http://www.yourmidlifecareer.com/bigsqueeze.html
If you want to know why it’s a bad title, just google “Big Squeeze” in any search engine. See what comes up.
Greenhouse warn that workers at all levels face increasing pressures from employers. For […]

Elizabeth Samet holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Yale, all in English literature. So she’s hardly the type you’d expect to find teaching cadets at West Point.
But Samet accepted a position there in 1996, to the surprise (and, I suspect, consternation) of her academic colleagues. She found surprising rewards and revelations, […]

While Facebook has become the stomping ground for solo-preneurs and social young people, LinkedIn remains strictly for business. Read a recent New York Times article about LinkedIn.
The Times article alludes to the edgy balance you have to maintain these days as a corporate executive. On the one hand, these days you’re really working for yourself. […]

I just got a nice email from someone who saw my amazon review of Barbara Sher’s book, Refuse to Choose.
So I went back to the review and found a few comments, both pro and con. The review really expresses a lot of my philosophy of career change and coaching. I cover some myth of academic […]

Richard Florida introduced the notion of cultural creatives to the world. He tells us that tolerance of diverse population groups - old, young, gays, straights and more - predicts happiness with a community.
Now he introduced a new book, Who’s Your City. The premise of this book is that where you live matters. Most new college […]

I finally got around to reading How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill.
You can read my review on amazon if you click here.
Mostly I felt this book could inspire a lot of discussion.
Was Gill’s experience typical? Are most Starbucks managers as charismatic and competent as Crystal, the manager who hired him?
Which of the […]

Penelope Trunk, author of The Brazen Careerist, has identified some principles of career management for the 21st century. Seehttp://tinyurl.com/3dznst
I think her 5 principles are very wise, but some of her preliminary comments are simply not accurate because they are way too general. For instance, she doesn’t encourage readers to seek advanced degrees, but […]